House of Many Tongues
Awards
- Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama 2011
Description
During the Six Day War, an Israeli general found an abandoned house and made it his home. Forty years later, the general, along with his imaginative and distant son Alex, live in peaceful solitude. When a Palestinian writer shows up with is daughter and lays claim to the house he left decades ago, an internal house war ensues. The bathroom is seized, a fig tree is destroyed, and the basement becomes a shrine in the resulting chaos. Relenting, both men strike a deal to share the house. Somehow these two families are going to have to live together—if they don't kill each other first.
Reviews
"Playwright Jonathan Garfinkel attacks the Israeli- Palestinian question through laughs and magic realism. " —Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine