precious stones

This play looks fascinating.

Precious Stones: Interview with playwright Jamil Khoury

Apparently it's the story of a wealthy Palestinian woman and a working-class Jewish woman, who try to start a dialogue group in Chicago in 1989 and end up falling in love.

I wrote a lot more about it on MadTeach , because I think it sounds like a potentially fantastic teaching tool—though I find myself with the traitorous wish that it didn't have a queer theme, because then I'd have a much easier time using it in school!