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Motti Lerner is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter who's in Australia at the moment to work on a project with theatre artists. All of his writing for theatre, film and television has a strong political dimension to it -- he also lectures in political playwrighting at Tel Aviv University and he's an activist in the peace movement.

Motti Lerner says that from the foundation of Israel sixty years ago, the theatre has played an important part in forging that society -- in establishing Hebrew as the spoken language, for example. Theatre in Israel has always been political in the service of the state. But by the late 1970s into the 1980s, dissenting voices began to emerge, including his own, over the one dominant, inescapable issue; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Motti Lerner will be speaking on Wednesday 25 June at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne.

Further Information

Victorian Writers' Centre

Presenter

Amanda Smith

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