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Source: The Daily Telegraph {Main}
Edition:
Country: UK
Date: Friday 15, September 2017
Page: 28
Area: 996 sq. cm
Circulation: ABC 477927 Daily
Ad data: page rate £46,000.00, scc rate £214.00
Phone: 020 7931 2000
Keyword:
National Theatre (National)
How the Oslo Accords became gripping drama
As Tony awardwinning
play ‘Oslo’
comes to the NT,
Con Coughlin shares
his memories of
covering the actual
events it depicts
A
three-hour play as its subject, Rogers has fashioned an
about the Middle unexpected thriller out of the brave
East peace process? and inspired Palestinian and Israeli
It’s hardly a subject negotiators who came together in
to get the pulse a remote Norwegian house to put
racing. And yet, aside decades of hostility and make
JT Rogers’s new peace. Their efforts were rewarded
play Oslo, about with a momentous ceremony on the
the astonishing, White House lawn in September
behind-the-scenes negotiations that 1993, with Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli
resulted in the historic Oslo Accords prime minister, and Yasser Arafat,
in 1993, won a Tony for Best Play on the PLO chairman, shaking hands
Broadway this year, and has already to seal the deal in front of a beaming
virtually sold out its month-long run president Bill Clinton. And sitting
at the National. Such is the demand anonymously among the thousands
that the production, starring Toby of global dignitaries who had flocked
Stephens, promptly transfers to the to Washington to witness this historic
West End in October.
event was Terje Rød-Larsen, the
Oslo dramatises a period of history cultivated, softly spoken Norwegian
– and a brief spell of optimism – that diplomat who, with his wife Mona
is now a distant memory. With so Juul, made it all possible by enabling
much of the modern-day Middle East the rival delegations to meet in secret
consumed by turmoil and conflict, it’s to thrash out their differences.
al-Qaeda, so-called Islamic State, Iraq, As a journalist covering these
Syria and Libya that are dominating ext

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