Seven Jewish Children – film of a play that must be seen
JVL Introduction
Here is a second chink of light, following the inspiring Oscar win for Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land, in an otherwise gloomy landscape for widely suppressed pro-Palestinian voices.
The 2009 play Seven Jewish Children, by eminent dramatist Caryl Churchill, has been turned into a film by Omri Dayan, a 23-year-old London-based US-Israeli director, and is scheduled to be screened on March 31 at the Prince Charles Cinema to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians.
We republish below the Observer’s story about it.
Full background to the controversy at the time the play first appeared can be viewed on the Jews for Justice for Palestinians website.
NWI
This article was originally published by The Observer on Sun 2 Mar 2025. Read the original here.
Hopeful or ‘hate-fuelled’? Film of controversial play about Israel gets London premiere
Director says Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill, which provoked fury at its first production in 2009, is a ‘family story’ at heart
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As yet i have not seen the film or read the play. It was written on 2009. I have faced personally the internal conflict of growing up in a South Africa dismantling Apartheid and hope to engage more fully as an anti-zionist as a Jèw for a Frèe Palestine
Wonderful, looking forward to seeing this on YT. Thank you