I must admit that i was nodding off during this play, (because of lack of sleep). I am soon going to need one very good night sleep on one comfortable bed (or sofa).
Peace Warriors, starts off political and ends personal (melodramatically). The dialogue - conversation between the 4 academics and the student were stimulating and comical in the first act but then the play took a less challenging turn and became a relationship drama about cheating spouses and broken marriages. Although the reason the wife is cheating is because the husband is no longer a left wing radical but has become right wing as evidenced by jokes like: the palestinians want peace and quiet so they can organize more bombings (right wing or simply very sarcastic),, this joke makes him a righty in the eyes of his radical wife.
It definitely attempts to challenge the status quo on middle eastern politics, but only peripherally. It ends as the audience only begins to become engaged in the topic; you want to hear more about what these characters think about this subject but then we get to hear them talk about why they are sleeping with one another ( or not).
The husband has definitely strayed from his left roots. Jokes like how he wore condoms only to prove his feminist credentials make hiim not a very likable character.
The wife seems to be the voice of the radical pro palestinian movement as we listen to her deliver a line in which she argues that holocaust demagoguery has prevented palestinian freedom.
I am wondering what the playwright"s position is on all of this; whether he agrees with the wife or the husband; or whether the playwright thinks it is a littlle more complex..
The acting was respectable.
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