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A Symposium on Hanoch Levin's play, Murder: A Note of Introduction

What is the place of the theater in time of war and violence? To what extent does the theater remain meaningful in a reality overcome by terror and suffering? The symposium investigates these issues while focusing on Murder, an extraordinary play by the noted Israeli playwright, Hanoch Levin. Murder was conceived and performed in 1997 as a response to the exacerbating Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its unstoppable cycles of violence. As the reception of the play at the time demonstrated, Murder touched a raw nerve in the Israeli pUblic. As such, it represents an artistic event well worthy of intellectual exploration. The essays included here examine the text of the play and its performance from various angles: they discuss the philosophical~ethical message of Murder, the problematic of the staging of the play, and its place in Levin's oeuvre. The symposium includes: