Back in the counter-culture days of the 60′s, we used to say the personal is political. For the characters in Return to Haifa, at Evanston’s Next Theatre,  the personal is always political. And that holds true for the audience as well.

Prologue: A house in Haifa (photo by Michael Brosilow)

In our Ageless post on Monday, February 8, we wrote about Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani’s novella, Returning to Haifa; Boaz Gaon’s adaptation of the novella into a play, The Return to Haifa; and some of controversy surrounding its production in Israel.

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