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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

Hopeful or ‘hate-fuelled’? Film of controversial play about Israel gets London premiere

Members of the cast sit in a minimalist set resembling a kitchen, picked out by yellow light
A scene from Seven Jewish Children: A Film for Gaza. Photograph: PR

The premiere of Caryl Churchill’s short play Seven Jewish Children at the Royal Court theatre 16 years ago proved to be one of British theatre’s most controversial opening nights.

Audiences were immediately divided by the British playwright’s deliberately stripped-back treatment of Jewish generational fear and Israel’s history of conflict.

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