Overview

Set during the height of the current Mid-East conflict, Paradise is a passionate, unflinching drama about two teenage girls (a Palestinian and an Israeli) trapped at the height of the Intifada. Paradise was commissioned and awarded The Lazarus New Play Prize by Cincinnati’s Playhouse-in-the-Park in 2003. When the theatre attempted to mount the play, a firestorm of controversy erupted, making the play’s author, Glyn O’Malley, in the words of Cincinnati Magazine, “the most talked-about and talked-to dramatist in America.”