Ilan hatsor biography of alberta

By Stephanie Murg

“The Sopranos” may have come and gone, but a new play proves that the windowless backroom of a butcher shop is still the perfect setting for family drama.

Ilan Hatsor’s “Masked,” now playing at the DR2 Theatre, takes place in an Arab village in the West Bank, a world away from Satriale’s, but Tony and the gang would recognize the concerns that drive these characters’ conversations and conflicts: questionable leadership, informers, blood money, arson, survival.

In short, “Masked” is the story of a family in crisis.

Ilan hatsor biography of alberta

And it just happens to be set against the Palestinian Intifada of 1990.

The play depicts one night in the lives of three Palestinian brothers. Thirty-year-old Daoud, the oldest brother, is a married father who works in Israel.

Na’im, the middle brother, is a senior member in the leadership of the resistance, which the youngest brother, Khalid, h