Guest Review

Oslo, directed by Bartlett Sher, is a very interesting play. It examines the efforts of a few daring individuals who challenged conventional (and ineffective) diplomacy in 1993, creating a secret back channel through which representatives of Israel and the PLO - entities that until that point had either denied the other’s legitimacy or promised its annihilation to meet and negotiate.   They introduced the concept of gradualism versus totalism, fostered by the then-novel concept that the negotiators should actually know each other as human beings. 

Does that make it sound dry?  It does sound dry.  Yet however improbably, the play is riveting.