On Top of Mount Zion

A hallmark of historic antisemitism is the bigot's firm belief that a small group of Jews secretly control government and the economy for their personal benefit. On Top of Mount Zion takes the prevailing opinion of most Americans that American Jews control our Mideast foreign policy to favor the interests of Israel over our own as an incipient sign of future antisemitism. When the Israeli bombing of Iran drags the U.S. into another losing war that suppressed belief becomes manifest in the election campaign of a New York Jewish senator. While fighting that battle the senator learns that his visiting Israeli nephew has been charged with the ritual killing of a Christian child. But what is most shocking is that this play is a comedy.

The general consensus is that change is urgent. Yet those claiming to work toward that end choose illusory paths that serve more as an impediment to the change they profess to seek. It is a closed loop -- a path that follows itself -- a safe at home tour rather than an expedition in search of wherever.
My plays attempt to untangle the complex knots created by repeated trips to nowhere by focusing on the fearful simplicity of uncontaminated life where acceptance and rejection meet to hash out what's bothering them.