12th cycle
YEAR: 2023

Misappropriation

Ron Elisha
Should Yad Vashem accept a $1 Billion donation from as shadowy American donor, in exchange for opening to represent all genocides?
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CITY: Melbourne Australia
CAST:2W, 2M
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National Jewish Playwriting Contest

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A mysterious American donor – a Black man named Emmit Tillson – offers Yad Vashem $1 Billion, a life changing sum, on the condition that the hallowed organization open its mandate to all genocide and hate. Who is this mysterious man? And what does it have to do with the sudden arrival of a painting – applied to the wall of the museum, that is slowly disappaearing?