Clamorous Voices: Seven Jewish Children and Its Proliferating Publics

How can a play go viral? Following its 2009 premiere at London’s Royal Court Theatre, Caryl Churchill’s Seven Jewish Children — a politically provocative mini-drama staging the contested history of Israeli-Palestinian relations — did just that, spawning counter-plays and performative revisions that proliferated worldwide, in physical theatres and in the internet’s intangible arena.