The critics for New York’s major newspapers lauded Habimah for its excellent acting in reviews today dealing with the opening of the Israel National Theatre’s second play here, last night. All spoke of the play, “Children of the Shadows,” by Ben-Zion Tomer, as a “prize-winning” drama which — as the New York Times stated–emphasizes that “the evil of the Nazi nightmare still remains to be exorcised.”
The New York Times reviewer said the play “encompasses the inescapable inner drama of its subject–the problem of building a new life in a new country by those who have the terrors of the Nazi holocaust, the ever-present, haunting past of those who, in times of blood letting and the crematoriums, chose to live.”
The reviewer had particular praise for Aharon Meskin, one of the oldest of the original Habimah repertory cast, as well as for Ammon Meskin, son of the veteran trouper, who plays the role of a young man “with deep earnestness.” “Although it has many allusions that have a special sharpness for Israelis,” said the Times, “the play’s significance is effective here too.”
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