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A Palestinian cop and an Israeli cop investigate the murder of an American archaeologist teaching in the West Bank

Hakan Atalay, Serkan Tınmaz, Mustafa Kirantepe (Semavar Kumpanya's production)
Facts

Facts

By Arthur Milner

Facts is a murder mystery set in Hebron. It is a work of fiction, but its starting point is an actual event: the murder in 1992 of Dr. Albert Glock, an American archaeologist teaching at Birzeit University in Ramallah. Two detectives, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, investigate the murder of an American archaeologist. Their main suspect is an Israeli settler. They’re pretty sure he’s guilty, but of what?

Production History

Facts premiered April 15, 2010, at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa, Canada, in co-production with the New Theatre of Ottawa, directed by Patrick McDonald.

Facts was workshopped by the Manitoba Association of Playwrights at its 2004 Playwrights Colony. In 2005, an early version of Facts was produced by Rory Runnels and Who Knows Productions, directed by Ulla Ryum, at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.

Facts is published in Two Plays about Israel/Palestine, iUniverse 2013; and in Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas, Playwrights Canada Press, 2016.

Facts has been translated into Arabic and Turkish.

Productions include: 

  • 2010 –  Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC) and New Theatre of Ottawa (NTO), Ottawa, ON
  • 2012 – Facts Assembly at Summerworks, Toronto, ON
  • 2012 – NTO and Alrowwad Cultural Society; Palestine and Israel, in Arabic
  • 2013 – WornRed Theatre/Finborough Theatre, London, U.K.
  • 2014 – Semavar Kumpanya, Istanbul (in Turkish)
  • 2015 – United Players, Vancouver, BC