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ALMONDS BLOSSOM IN DEIR YASSIN, by renowned Palestinian playwright Hanna Eady, is a full-length play about four people with inextricable ties to the historical Palestinian village of Deir Yassin—the site of a massacre of Palestinian men, women, and children in 1948. The play takes place in 2018, when the village has been transformed into an Israeli mental health center, and the last surviving paramilitary commander of the massacre is invited to attend a ceremony there honoring his contribution to the founding of the State of Israel. The commander, now elderly, finds himself struggling with the demands of the State and his own moral conscience as he converses with a young Israeli psychiatrist, and also with a Palestinian woman who may or may not be a survivor of Deir Yassin. Through multiple voices and vividly surreal scenes, the play delves into Palestinian collective memory to deliver a profoundly relevant narrative about atrocity, displacement, human relationships, and hope.
Playwright Eady says, “Through remembrance, storytelling, and resilience, the play also demonstrates the essence of Palestinian sumud, or steadfastness. This is not a passive quality, but an active one that perseveres through attempts to silence historical truths.”
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