The Night of the Twentieth

Yehoshua Sobol

1976

Moshe:

How? There’s no inner sanctum in my life, my life is secular, absolutely secular, from beginning to end. And what’s not in my psyche, I’ll not let you erect between us. Neither you nor anyone else who wants to live in partnership with me. If anybody will try to surround himself with walls of sanctity, I’ll destroy them gladly and without…

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Yehoshua Sobol

b. 1939

Yehoshua Sobol is a playwright and essayist. He was born and brought up in Tel Mond, Israel. His first play, Hayamim habaim (The Days to Come) was staged at the Haifa Theater in 1971, and his Geto (Ghetto; 1984) was performed by the Royal National Theatre in the UK, winning the London Critics Award and the Evening Standard Award for best play of the year.

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