Julia Pascal’s 12:37 to make world premiere at Finborough Theatre this winter

The world premiere of Julia Pascal’s 12:37 will come to Finborough Theatre this winter.

The Pascal Theatre Company will present the new play at the London venue from 1 December, with previews from 29 November, and runs until 21 December.

Making up the cast are Alex Cartuson (Paul Green), Ruth Lass (Minnie Green/Shoshana Liebovicz), Danann McAleer (Harry Cohen/Jonathan Stein), Lisa O’Connor (Eileen O’Reily/Rina Goldberg) and Eoin O’Dubhghaill (Cecil Green).

At 12:37pm on 22 July 1946, the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed. Ninety-one people were killed, forty-six wounded. The explosion was carried out by right-wing Zionists, targeting the headquarters of the British in Palestine.

Two Irish Jewish brothers journey from Dublin to combat antisemitism on the streets of East London. Their Irish nationalism propels them towards Jewish nationalism in the common struggle against British Imperialism.

12:37 raises complex and controversial questions around Jewish violence, homeland and national identity in a stunning new play that is both a hard-hitting historical epic and an intimate family drama.

Julia Pascal said: “A secret history of how Irish nationalism influenced Jewish nationalists is at the heart of this play.

“The text is influenced by interviews with men who fought the British in Palestine and also by my own Dublin Jewish family and their conflicted relationships with Israel.”

For more information and tickets, visit finboroughtheatre.co.uk