Stones

STONES (A deconstruction of Zion) was written by David Schein in 1989 and performed by him in 1990 at the Home for Contemporary Theater and Art in NYC. That was during the First Palestinian Intifada, known as the "Stone Intifada," which began with Palestinian youth throwing stones, their only weapon, at the Israeli forces that had at that time occupied the West Bank and Gaza for twenty years. At the time of STONE'S publication, 2024, the occupation has lasted 57 years. Gaza is destroyed. Much of the West Bank has been appropriated. Schein says, "This STONE is aimed at the ideologues and their armies on both sides who continue to inflict horrors upon civilians."