SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN a play for Gaza at Horizon Theatre Rep

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"Tell her it’s the Land God gave us."

HORIZON THEATRE REP ANNOUNCES

It’s Winter /Spring 2025 lineup.

SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN- A Play for Gaza,

by CARYL CHURCHILL.

DIRECTED BY RAFAEL DE MUSSA

New York, NY-(10/23/24) Horizon Theatre Rep (Rafael De Mussa, Artistic Director) Announces

part of Its Winter/Spring 2025 lineup. SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN by Caryl Churchill. The play will be directed by Rafael De Mussa and will star Artificial Intelligence created by Mr. De Mussa

SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN is a ten-minute play written as a response to the 2009 bombing of Gaza. All performances will be free and streamed online. Please, consider making a donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP):Emergency Appeal for the People of Gaza. https://www.map.org.uk

Rafael De Mussa Director, has been managing an Off Off-Broadway theatre company dedicated

to seldom-produced plays for over twenty-four years. Under his leadership Horizon Theatre Rep has

produced 27 main stage productions by some of the world’s greatest writers, garnering critical

acclaim and consistently employing an eclectic family of artists to better reflect New York City's

diversity of thought.

AI began in antiquity with stories, of artificial beings endowed with consciousness by master craftsmen. However, the field of AI research was founded at a workshop in Dartmouth College 1956. The U.S Government provided millions of dollars with the hope of making this vision come true. Eventually, it became obvious that researchers had grossly underestimated the difficulty of this reality, and the field was criticized in the press and avoided by industry. Nevertheless, research and funding continued to grow under other names. And starting in the early 2000s deep learning proved to be a breakthrough technology, eclipsing all other methods. The transformer architecture debuted in 2017 and was used to produce impressive generative AI applications, amongst other use cases. Today AI is finally booming in all fields of human endeavor.

Caryl Churchill is one of the UK’s most influential playwrights. Her plays include

Owners., Seven Jewish Children, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Top Girls, This is a Chair,

Far Away, A Number, Cloud Nine and Serious Money.

Horizon Theatre Rep, Theatre’s postmortem reality for the digital age. Was founded in the year 2000 in NYC and is led by Rafael De Mussa. The year 2024/2025 season has been inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s "For some time now our whole culture has been moving as toward catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end."

Horizon Theatre 2024-2025 season is being made possible by a generous grant from the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Materials for the Arts- NYC's Creative Reuse Center, Google Ad Grants -a generous program of Google, Maison Margiela-John Galliano, and by viewers like you.