Child's Play

This January, playwright Caryl Churchill wrote Seven Jewish Children as a response to the situation in Gaza. Staged in February, the nine-minute play was highly controversial (shock horror, I know). Anyway, the ever-tolerant-of-typos Guardian worked with Churchill to record a performance (by one actor, rather than nine) so that it could reach wider audiences online, and continue the conversation. The result is thought-provoking, and it's over here...

The play lingered in my mind today: its inability to sum up such long-term conflict, to synopsise the rationale for an inherited war to a child. And it reminded me of a quote from the ever-lovely Thich Nhat Hanh (nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr.), in which he affirmed that there is no "path to peace":



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