Though I didn’t massively enjoy ‘Far Away’ or ‘This is a Chair’, I decided to give Churchill another chance as my lecture on the plays was so good that I have now ended up deciding to write my end of semester essay on them. ‘Seven Jewish Children’ was brought up in the lecture and given its time appropriate context with the recent resurgence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into the media I reckoned it would be a worthwhile read. Churchill lays out seven scenes with no clear characters, spoken through the voices of parent figures recounting Jewish history and anti-semitism. The first two scenes look at the holocaust and latter five the Israel-Palestine war with the perspective of childhood ignorance. Through the repletion of “tell her” and “don’t tell her” the idea of protecting children from conflict, both through ignorance to not upset them and try to retain childhood innocence but also saying enough to make them aware and keep them alive. The children discussed seem to be of each Israeli and Palestinian descent, and though Churchill has had criticism from pro-israeli critics when she first published in the initial height of the conflict in 2009, that Israeli were villainised and even likened to Nazi oppressors, whilst the play reads more pro-Palestinian in my eyes due to ones own political perspective, the most importan focus of Churchill’s isn’t any form of political siding but viewing the war from the angle of the victims from each side, the children whose innocence, homes and families and in often cases lives are stripped away from them in a conflict which is no fault of their own. I much preferred ‘Seven Jewish Children’ to the aforementioned Churchill plays I have read, perhaps as its relevancy among todays conflict tugged on the heartstrings. It was also short, but that is why I believe anyone with an interest and concern in the current affairs of the world should feel an obligation to read it, for it highlights the victims of conflict over any political agenda.