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The fun eighties and the funnier nineties were over with the worry of the computer crashing millennium and the atmosphere saddened and exploded with politics after the tragedy of 9.11. Although I’d already written two plays championing Muslim women, I did not feel entitled to tackle the subject of Iraq.\u00a0 But I felt able to confront the martyrdom of Rachel Corrie in the Gaza Strip.\u00a0 She was an activist whose motives I understood.\u00a0 She died in 2003.<\/p>\n

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Working for John Kerry\u2019s campaign, as my anti-Bush statement, I was handed a leaflet in Sheridan Square informing me of the Rachel Corrie story which was clearly a case of martyrdom as tragic as Antigone\u2019s.\u00a0 She died under an Israeli tank, protecting homes of the Palestinians.<\/b><\/p>\n

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I wrote Flowers of Red in response, and it is about the same length as Sophocles\u2019 play.\u00a0 With no expectation of it being produced in America because Americans were never told the Israeli Government had done anything \u2018wrong\u2019 (although my Israeli friends knew better) I tried it out at the Brighton Festival, directed by Terry Adams.\u00a0 We took the production to Edinburgh where it won me Best Playwright from the Edinburgh Fringe Report, which in turn led to a production in Boston at the Boston Playwrights\u2019 Theatre.\u00a0 There it got what my playwright friends call a \u2018rave\u2019 review in The Boston Globe, proving that I was wrong to distrust the reception of such a play in a town with a respectable Jewish population.\u00a0\u00a0 Interestingly a verbatim play taken from Rachel Corrie\u2019s emails was banned by the trustees of the New York Theatre Workhop, but in Boston the play was not only well received I also had a chance to get a panel together discussing the political problem.\u00a0 Brian Kaufman, who earlier at directed a short film of one of my acts, Bunny, chaired the discussion between Zionists and Palestinians.\u00a0 I still consider that Sunday afternoon a high-profile high-light of my playwriting career.\u00a0 The run was well attended by CIA men, and one of them asked me whose side I was on.\u00a0 Sophocles came to my aid, \u201cit\u2019s a tragedy!\u201d\u00a0 I moaned.<\/b><\/p>\n

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