Settlements at Quarantine Players

SETTLEMENTS By Seth Rozin
When the resident theatre at a Jewish Community Center commissions a new play about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a half-Jewish/half-Jordanian playwright, the Center finds itself pulled in several directions. The playwright was sent on a trip to Israel and came back with a story that only explored one side of the westbank conflict. The playwright's narrative, told to them by a palestian family. Questioning the premise of the story and the balance of it becomes a point of conflict within the organization. One of the Centers major donors, the Centers Board President, the theatres Artistic Director and the playwright each fight for a different outcome, while the Centers Executive Director tries to keep the institution from falling off its foundation. SETTLEMENTS examines conflicts inside the Jewish community, radicalization of young people's thoughts on the Israeli-Palestian conflict and how existing Jewish instutions are coping with these new realities.
Genre: drama, politicalSubject Matter Keywords: Jewish, Israel-Palestine, Israel, theatre, Politics, artist, art
Age Appropriateness: ages 18 and up
Narrative Attributes: Centers Female Characters

Directed by Leslie Ross
Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players

Characters:
NOAH 44, (Timothy Lynch) Jewish; Artistic Director of the theatre
JUDITH 52, (Lori Muhlstein) Jewish, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center that houses the theatre
YASMIN 28, (Tarnim Bybee) half-Jewish/half-Jordanian, playwright

MARION 65, (Barrie Alguire) Jewish, President of the Board of the Jewish Community CenterCAESAR: 76, Jewish, a retired opthalmologist-turned-major-philanthropist