Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Anton Berezin’s tongue is only partially in his cheek when he recalls his pitch to investors in Yentl , whose season has just been extended at Sydney Opera House. “I told them, ‘I’ve got a great idea, let’s do a Jewish play at the most antisemitic time in the 21st century’,” he says, in reference to rising antipathy towards Jews because of the ongoing Israel-Palestine war.

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