Waking the lion-4.10.24
23 years and I still haven’t decided on how a post is supposed to look. But it has 23 years of indecision behind the title alone. The need to convey what a tiny slice of life in Tel Aviv feels like is the only consistent factor.
Si the play we saw the other night, Waking Lions, is another slice of Tel Aviv. A doctor, coming home from surgery late at night, runs over an Erithranian refugee and flees. His attempts to right the wrongs, unlike in Macbeth, lead to an uncomfortable settlement and cover-up that seems to satisfy everyone. except the audience (me).
It’s a good play about morality and this kind of questioning is surprising in a time of war. Involved are Bedouin, Erithrian, and Arab societies as well as Jewish moralities – and almost all are respected.