Why a Vancouver theatre festival canceled a play about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and what that says about how we talk about the issue | Day 6 | Live Radio
Before Hamas launched its deadly attacks on Israel on October 7th, Vancouver's PuSh Festival had planned to stage The Runner, a play by Canadian playwright Christopher Morris, which tells the fictional story of an Israeli emergency volunteer whose life is upended after he makes a split-second decision to give aid to a young Palestinian woman instead of an Israeli soldier. When protests and petitions against the play emerged, the PuSh Festival stood its ground and defended the play. But ultimately, it decided to cancel the performance. Gabrielle Martin, the PuSh Festival's director of...