The Arab in Hanoch Levin's works—from The Queen of the Bathtub to Murder

Hanoch Levin is an important and highly influential playwright. Unlike other playwrights, he has seldom addressed the "Arab problem," until the assassination of Rabin. The play Murder, in which this change is first reflected, differs from his earlier plays by locating the conflict at the center and incorporating a Palestinian figure, as well as by fracturing its structure. Murder is a text and performance in which incongruity is the central issue. There is order in the disorder and logic in the illogic of the play. The logic, which is beyond the pattern of the plot, design of the characters, dialogue, or genre, is the murderous logic of the dispute with the Palestinians.