J.T. Rogers’ multi-award winning three-hour political drama records the clandestine peace process initiated by a Norwegian couple which led to Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and PLO Chairman Afarat shaking hands on the White House lawn in 1993 in front of a beaming President Clinton.
The play, big yet intimate, wittily written and brilliantly directed by Sher Bartlett with tremendous pace and energy, has a first-rate cast, headed by Toby Stephens and Lydia Leonard, disarming as the Norwegians, and Peter Polycarpou and Philip Arditti, volatile as intractable foes. The sparring is highly entertaining and not to be missed.