What Strong Fences Make

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What Strong Fences Make is a 2009 play by Israel Horovitz. [1]

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Mission

Horovitz told an interviewer that he wrote What Strong Fences Make because "another voice needed to be heard" in the wake of Caryl Churchill's play Seven Jewish Children , which he argues was "offensive, distorted and manipulative". [2]

Horovitz has offered to allow any theater that wishes to produce What Strong Fences Make free of royalties, provided that a collection is taken up following all performances for the benefit of ONE Family Fund, a charity that assists children wounded in attacks on Israel. [3] [4]

The playwright has made the entire script of the play available as a downloadable PDF [5] on the website of Theater J.

Plot

What Strong Fences Make is set at an IDF military checkpoint just outside Ramallah. Horovitz calls it "a simple and clear stage-play that attempts to make a statement about a real-life situation that is anything but simple and clear." [3]

Staging

The first reading was staged by New York's Barefoot Theater Company on April 15, 2009. [6]

Other productions

The play was produced at the Boston Theater Marathon in 2009. [7]

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References

  1. Why I wrote 'What Strong Fences Make', April 19, 2009, ISRAEL HOROVITZ http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239710729817
  2. Us, Uk Playwrights Write Separate Responses To 'seven Jewish Children', Journal of Turkish Weekly, April 20, 2009 http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/73186/-us-uk-playwrights-write-separate-responses-to-seven-jewish-children-.html
  3. 1 2 http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710729686&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull%5B%5D
  4. What to tell the children, May 7, 2009, Socialist Worker http://socialistworker.org/2009/05/07/what-to-tell-the-children
  5. Horovitz, Israel (April 2009). "What Strong Fences Make" (PDF). Theater J. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2011. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
  6. Barefoot Theater's 70/70 Hosts 4 Short Plays By Israel Horovitz 4/15 In NYC http://broadwayworld.com/article/Barefoot_Theaters_7070_Hosts_4_Short_Plays_By_Israel_Horovitz_415_In_NYC_2009041
  7. "About Boston Playwrights' Theatre". Archived from the original on 2009-09-05. Retrieved 2009-05-11.