After Gaza Protests Cancel Performance, Israeli Theater Company in Scotland Stages Show Outdoors

(Herald-Scotland) Helen McArdle - A performance by an Israeli theater group was cancelled last week after pro-Palestinian campaigners picketed the venue. Director Arik Eshet said the cancellation had eroded freedom of speech at the Edinburgh arts festival. After failing to find an alternative venue, the actors performed their hip hop opera outdoors for free in the Meadows area of Edinburgh.