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Sept/Oct 2018 • Vol. XL No. 5 • Fiction |

Excerpts from “The Gallows”

By Haïm Hazaz, translated by Atar Hadari

From the Hebrew. 

 

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Atar Hadari's plays have won awards from the BBC, Arts Council of England, National Foundation of Jewish Culture (New York), European Association of Jewish Culture (Brussels) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was Young Writer in Residence. Plays have been staged at the Finborough Theatre, Wimbledon Studio Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Nat Horne Studio Theatre (New York) and Valdez, Alaska. His collection of biblical monologues, Rembrandt’s Bible, was recently published by Indigo Dreams.

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