cover of episode Debate around Israel-Hamas war collides with Canadian theatre

Debate around Israel-Hamas war collides with Canadian theatre

Publish Date: 2024/1/31
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Online petitions. Angry in-person meetings. An ultimatum. These are just a few of the events that lead to a Canadian play being pulled from Victoria’s Belfry Theatre and Vancouver’s PuSh Festival.

The Globe’s theatre critic, J. Kelly Nestruck, explains how this play – The Runner – wound up at the centre of a controversy about a war half a world away.

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