Nic Musleh and Elissa Beth Stebbins in ‘The Return’ (photo: David Allen)

International and intimate affairs commingle to harrowing effect in “The Return,” by Hannah Eady and Edward Mast, now being staged by Golden Thread Productions and Art2Action, Inc.

The intense, 70-minute drama makes excellent use of the Garret, a small fifth-floor space at the Toni Rembe Theatre rarely used for public performances, placing every audience member discomfitingly close to the argument at hand.

To live in the state of Israel is to live in a state of suspended animation, suggests “The Return.” Arabs, many of whom identify as Palestinian, make up 20% of the Israeli population. are perpetually regarded with suspicion and surveillance. Respect is denied; upward mobility an impossibility. Society is frozen i

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