by Peter-Adrian Cohen
Directed by Robert Kalfin Theatre Or, Durham, North Carolina
at Theater Three
311 W. 43rd St., 3rd Floor
WORLD PREMIERE
Sat 5/23 @10:00, Sun 5/24 @5:00, Wed 5/27 @9:00, Sat 5/30 @2:00 (followed by a discussion), Sat 6/6 @Noon, Sun 6/7 @1pm, Tue 6/9 @9:30, Sat 6/13 @8:30, Sun 6/14 @3:30
Based on the letters of Yoni Netanyahu and the personal accounts of the men he led and the woman he loved, To Pay the Price weaves a complex portrait of an extraordinary man struggling to live an ordinary life. Reliving one of the greatest military rescue missions of all time - the raid to free hostages of a hijacked airliner from Entebbe - the play illuminates the toll to a nation of a never-ending war. It is the inspiring story of a genuine hero who grapples with the very notion of what it means to be a hero.
Company bio: Theatre Or (“or” means “light” in Hebrew) is a North Carolina-based professional theatre company developing a niche for producing American premieres of Israeli plays. Chicago's Tony Award recipient Victory Gardens Theater hosted Theatre Or's North Carolina English language premiere of Motti Lerner's Hard Love in 2006 as well as their OnStageIsrael Festival of staged readings of Israeli plays in 2008.
