To Pay the Price
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To Pay the Price is a is 2009 a play by Peter-Adrian Cohen
based in part on the letters of Israeli hero Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed in action during Operation Entebbe
at Entebbe
airport, by Uganda
n soldiers, when the Israeli military rescued hostages after an aircraft hijacking by Palestinian
terrorists. Netanyahu was the leader of the assault, and the only Israeli military fatality of the raid.
The play, produced by North Carolina's Theatre Or opened off-off Broadway in New York in June 2009 during the Festival of Jewish Theater and Ideas. In addition to Netanyahu's letters, the playwright drew on interviews he conducted with Netanyahu's friends and family.
The play had been scheduled to run at the New Repertory Theatre
company near Boston, Massachusetts. The run was canceled by the Netanyahu family because the theater was intending to run the play as a companion piece to My Name is Rachel Corrie
.
Peter-Adrian Cohen
Peter-Adrian Cohen is an American writer. He grew up in Zürich, Switzerland, and lives in Boston.-Career:While studying at Harvard Business School Cohen wrote the 1973 best-seller, The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School. It is a "sophisticated" and "negative" look at the Business...
based in part on the letters of Israeli hero Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed in action during Operation Entebbe
Operation Entebbe
Operation Entebbe was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Special Forces of the Israel Defense Forces at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and...
at Entebbe
Entebbe
Entebbe is a major town in Central Uganda. Located on a Lake Victoria peninsula, the town was at one time, the seat of government for the Protectorate of Uganda, prior to Independence in 1962...
airport, by Uganda
Uganda
Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
n soldiers, when the Israeli military rescued hostages after an aircraft hijacking by Palestinian
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
terrorists. Netanyahu was the leader of the assault, and the only Israeli military fatality of the raid.
The play, produced by North Carolina's Theatre Or opened off-off Broadway in New York in June 2009 during the Festival of Jewish Theater and Ideas. In addition to Netanyahu's letters, the playwright drew on interviews he conducted with Netanyahu's friends and family.
The play had been scheduled to run at the New Repertory Theatre
New Repertory Theatre
The New Repertory Theatre is a Boston-area Regional theater company based in Watertown, Massachusetts.The New Repertory Theatre " is the third largest theatre in the Greater Boston area. It presents world premieres, contemporary and classic works in intimate settings." The artistic director is...
company near Boston, Massachusetts. The run was canceled by the Netanyahu family because the theater was intending to run the play as a companion piece to My Name is Rachel Corrie
My Name is Rachel Corrie
My Name is Rachel Corrie is a play based on the diaries and emails of Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman, who directed it, and journalist Katharine Viner. Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American Evergreen State College student and member of the International Solidarity Movement who traveled to...
.