'Oslo' on Broadway, J.T. Rogers' Play About How Peace is Made
New York’s stages boast singing cats and rhyming founding fathers. And yet, in these strange days, the most fanciful Broadway production might be Oslo, a new play by J.T. Rogers which tells the real-life story of a group of (non-singing) diplomats and their attempts to broker peace between Israelis and Palestinians—a spectacle almost unimaginable in the current political climate.
Almost 24 years after the fateful handshake on the White House lawn between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, the back-channel talks that led to the signing of the Oslo Accords will be reenacted eight times a week at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater (opening night is April 13; previews began March 23). For just under three hours, audience members have the chance to observe the warring parties as they congregate in Borregaard Manor, grapple with the seemingly insoluble Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and even make headway.
Continue reading "'Oslo' on Broadway, J.T. Rogers' Play About How Peace is Made" at...