PLAY REVIEW: 'The Return' | Directed by John Vreeke | Written by Hanna Eady and Edward Mast | At Cherry Street Village through Dec. 3 | Tickets $10–$75
Dunya Production’s latest project, “The Return,” comes in the form of a one-act, 75-minute play about two people who meet in an auto-body shop in the mid-sized Israeli city of Herzilya, a high-tech suburb of Tel Aviv. In fact, the play’s cast only consists of these two characters: an Israeli Jewish woman (Anna Daines) and a Palestinian man (Tristan Johnson). By Seattle-based playwrights Edward Mast and Hanna Eady, who is Palestinian, “The Return” starts with a question: the woman asks the man, a mechanic, if he is open on the Sabbath. ...