OCTOBER 7 - "You Are My Hero"
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Our play, OCTOBER 7, has officially opened in New York City! On today’s episode, we bring you exclusive interviews with our audience to hear their reactions to the play. We were even joined by Shani Arditi, one of the Nova festival survivors we interviewed in Israel, herself for opening night. Her story was amazing - it was compelling and we just had to make it one of the central stories of our OCTOBER 7 play.
While the media tries to downplay the horror of the Hamas attacks, we worked to make this play so we can share the truth, 100% verbatim. OCTOBER 7 is heartbreaking, eye-opening, and is a show that everyone needs to see. You can buy tickets or support our efforts here https://www.october7theplay.com/
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| 0:00.0 | The show is very profound. |
| 0:03.0 | It's very moving. |
| 0:06.0 | It was amazing the story that it had to tell. |
| 0:11.0 | I mean, it's a lot. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a lot, and everyone should come see it. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to the Anna Filmsop. I'm Anne Michael Henney. |
| 0:23.6 | And I'm Phil McAleair. |
| 0:24.6 | And we are the morning after the night before. |
| 0:26.6 | Yes, really. I've forgotten who I am at this stage. |
| 0:29.6 | We're very tired. |
| 0:30.6 | So we have literally have just had our opening night of October the 7th play here in New York City, right in the heart of the theatre district. And it was amazing. I have amazing, amazing performance, amazing audience, amazing surprise at the end. Yeah, hang on to the very end of the show because we have an amazing surprise. Yes. We will really... It will bring tears. It would bring tears to a stone, so you totally want to hang in for that. So what is October 7th then? What is the play? |
| 0:56.0 | October 7th, the play? October 7th, the play is after October 7th, we went to Israel. |
| 1:01.0 | We interviewed 20 people. We've boiled their stories down into our verbatim play. You know, we do verbatim plays. |
| 1:07.0 | And it's really, it's, it's, it's every word on stage is the story of tragedy, heroism, survivor, humor. |
| 1:15.9 | Just, just, and it's a bit like the movie Crash where all the stories are start off the beginning and you don't know how they're connected and somewhere connected and somewhere not it. |
| 1:23.3 | And it makes this, develops into this wonderful narrative and the director and the cast just lift it. |
| 1:30.0 | And the sound and the light lifted to me, I think, to an incredible level. |
| 1:35.3 | Why do we do this? We did it because we noticed that people are very keen to talk with October 8th and 9th and 10th and every day in between |
| 1:44.0 | and Gaza and hunger strikes and students and encampments. |
| 1:48.0 | And they're not so keen to talk about what happened on October 7th. |
| 1:52.0 | There would be no October 8th, October 9th if it wasn't for October 7th. |
| 1:56.0 | You know, there are hostages today. There still hostages in Israel that in Gaza that |
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