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Editors’ Pick

January 23, 2017

The Play “Oslo” Perpetuates the Great Fantasy of Diplomacy

Successful negotiations aren’t the same as peace.

J.T. Rogers’s play Oslo—about the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that took place in that city—had a run at Lincoln Center last summer and is scheduled to open on Broadway in the spring. While praising the acting and direction, Jonathan Tobin concludes that the play itself “fails as history,” most notably by ignoring the waves of terror and bloodshed that the Oslo Accords brought in their wake:

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