{"id":25394,"date":"2026-05-19T17:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/?post_type=play&#038;p=25394"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:32:28","slug":"rs-children-dont-speak","status":"publish","type":"play","link":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/rs-children-dont-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u2019s Children Don\u2019t Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"58\"><em>\u201cThis Is the Protocol of a Town Meeting Not Far from Here\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"713\">One night, two children arrive in a nameless town \u2014 refugees from a war-torn region. The townspeople take them in and welcome them into their community. Soon after their arrival, it becomes clear that the two young children do not speak. Strange events begin to unfold throughout the town, raising suspicions that the children may somehow be connected to them. At the same time, a disturbing sound spreads across the town, threatening to drive its residents insane. Over the course of five urgent town meetings, the townspeople are forced to decide whether to keep the children among them or save themselves. This play is the protocol of those meetings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"929\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The play received support from the Israeli Playwrights Development Fund through the \u201cStarting Point\u201d program. Dramaturgical guidance: <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Yigal Sachs<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Nitzan Cohen<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis Is the Protocol of a Town Meeting Not Far from Here\u201d One night, two children arrive in a nameless town \u2014 refugees from a war-torn region. The townspeople take them in and welcome them into their community. Soon after their arrival, it becomes clear that the two young children do not speak. Strange events&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/rs-children-dont-speak\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25390,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[531,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/25394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/play"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/25394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25411,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/25394\/revisions\/25411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}