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...says he wants Israel to release from prison Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese citizen who was part of a Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) cell that in 1979 arrived by boat in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya and invaded the apartment of the Haran family. Smadar Haran hid in the attic with her daughter Yael, 2, and was so intent on stifling the girl's crying that she accidentally suffocated the child. Meanwhile, members of the cell took Danny Haran and daughter Einat, 4, back to the shore where, realizing escape was impossible, Kuntar shot Danny in the back and drowned...
Twenty seven years ago, Smadar Haran suffocated her two-year-old daughter. She was trying to quiet the whimpering child as the two of them hid in the family's attic while PLO terrorists searched for them in their apartment in the coastal Israeli town of Nahariya. The terrorists didn't find them but took Smadar's husband and their four-year-old daughter hostage. When the cell, retreating as security forces pursued them, found the rubber boat they'd arrived in disabled by gunfire, one of the members shot Smadar's husband Danny in the back and drowned...
...decimated strand, with little more than a tarp and a few bottles of water, desperate for a ride north out of Pass Christian or a working phone to tell relatives they were alive, if not exactly well. "The house was rocking in the wind. I looked out the attic window, and water was approaching fast. I thought we were done...
...quick exchanges at the beginning of the show make it hard to follow at first.The set design is spectacularly utilitarian. Designer Todd Weekley successfully creates a set that is minimalist, but provides a wealth of material for the actors to interact with, from mirrors on the wall to the attic platform. The set’s rich earth tones also complement the small-town setting of an Irish village. The lighting, designed by Joshua Randall, is similarly organic and simple; its replication of the progression of natural daylight is especially admirable.The costumes—designed by Andrea R. Bomar...
...post-disaster uncertainty and stagnation, and one week might not have been enough time to fully grasp it. Students like Datar witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, visible across the city in everything from dysfunctional traffic lights to the blue tarps marking spots where residents had axed through attic roofs.Later that day in the neighborhood of Gentilly, Smith, looking down at the remains of her home, remembered what it had looked like before.“It was so nice,” she said.Few of the student volunteers had known New Orleans before the storm, though, and they were...