Playwright Christopher Morris's stage thriller delves into the moral dilemma faced by an Orthodox-Jewish man working with a volunteer emergency response group in Israel amidst the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The play continues to tour despite the recent violence, prompting questions about the impact of real-world events on artists' emotions and thoughts.
, playwright Christopher Morris’s stage thriller about a moral dilemma faced by an Orthodox-Jewish man who works with a volunteer emergency response group in Israel that is often first on the scene after a terrorist attack,That original adrenalin-filled, award-winning production directed by Daniel Brooks has been on tour, on and off, pretty much ever since - and it continues to tour even after that great Canadian theatre artist’s death backin Gananoque, Ont., even as the Israel -Hamas war rages.
Sometimes there can also be pressure placed on theatre artists to be experts in the field of what their play is about. And though the team onhas become familiar with the limited insight the play reveals about the life of one man in Jerusalem, we lack the experience to understand, or speak on, the extremely complicated situation happening in that region of the world. It’s important for us to remember that.
It’s hard to know how audiences will take any play right now, let alone one set in Israel, like ours. The power of this production, and why so many people have connected with it, is that it doesn’t “take a side”, for lack of a better expression. It’s a play about triage, that’s set in Israel. The play’s protagonist Jacob provides life-saving care to a dying person and grapples with the fallout he receives from the polarized community he lives in for doing so.
At this moment, the idea of making art across borders and between cultures - something you often do at Human Cargo - seems harder than it used to be.
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