Members of a local synagogue’s theatre group are keeping the award-winning Canadian play by Christopher Morris that the Belfry leadership pulled from its schedule in January amid Mideast tensions top of mind
As the Belfry Theatre prepares to open a new season of theatre in Victoria, Jewish audience members and artists in B.C.’s capital city are making sure the regional theatre’s decision to cancel a show set in Israel last season is not forgotten.he Runner ,Then, on Saturday, a smaller number from that same group plans to hold a public protest reading of the play outside of the Belfry at 7 p.m.
J. Kelly Nestruck: Vancouver’s PuSh Festival stands up for The Runner, as Victoria’s Belfry Theatre caves to pressure to cancel Israel-set play But in January, the Belfry, which is run by artistic director Michael Shamata and executive director Isaac Thomas, decided to cancel its presentation ofafter being pressed to do so, first by an online petition that criticized its focus on Israeli perspectives and, again, at a heated in-person community meeting after which the theatre was spray-painted with the words “Free Palestine.”
“I think they saw the word Israel and that was enough for them. There are members in the Jewish community who would be against this play also.”
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