THE RETURN at Dunya Productions at Cherry Street Village

THE RETURN is a one-act, 75 minute play about two people who meet in an auto-body shop in Herzilya, a mid-sized city in Israel.  One of them is Palestinian, one of them is Israeli Jewish.  They might or might not have known each other in the past.  By the end of the play, both of their lives will be changed forever by the realities of present-day Israel.

The play was written by Hanna Eady and Edward Mast.  Hanna Eady grew up Palestinian in northern Israel, and is a longtime resident of Bainbridge Island near Seattle. Edward Mast is also a longtime resident of Seattle.  Eady and Mast have written several plays together, performing them around the U.S, in Palestinian territories, and inside Israel.

THE RETURN was written in English but had its world premiere in Hebrew for a mixed audience of Palestinians and Israeli Jews at Al-Midan, the Palestinian theater of Israel.  The U.S. premiere was at Mosaic Theater in Washington D.C., and was followed by a production at Israeli Stage in Boston.  Reviews of all three productions have called the play "must see theater", "a very sharp soul-searching reckoning", "so fractured, painful, and real that we can’t help but be swept up in the injustice of it all", and "theater to shake you out of your seat and into a new perspective".