ABRAHAM
AND ISSAC
by
Robert Cohen
UC Irvine 2010
A group of California student actors decide to mount their production
of a medieval “Abraham and Isaac” cycle play in
contemporary Jerusalem’s Rova Square, where they and their
Hebrew and Arabic translators face a heckling audience of Israelis
and Palestinians. “Deep religious awe and ironic kitsch
collide like atomic particles, illuminating the transcendent
and immanent axis of a graph on which all religious experience
might be plotted.” Guy Zimmerman, The Times Quotidian
