{"id":3231,"date":"2025-04-15T15:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=3231"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:15:55","slug":"rosenblatt-mark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=3231","title":{"rendered":"Rosenblatt, Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Rosenblatt is a British theatre director and writer best known for his play <em>The Giant<\/em>, which opened in 2024 at the Royal Court Theatre and subsequently received a West End transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2025. Previously, he worked as a director, winning the JMK Young Director&#8217;s Award for his work on Julia Pascal&#8217;s <em>The Dybbuk<\/em> in 1999, followed by a production of CP Taylor\u2019s play <em>Bread and Butter <\/em>(focused on the friendship of two Jewish men in Glasgow\u2019s Gorbals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Productions at the Arcola and Shakespeare\u2019s Globe Theatre followed, as well as work as a director at the Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse) and the National Theatre. He directed the Japanese premiere of Martin Crimp&#8217;s The Country, and specialised in directing palys by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Alan Ayckbourn, Eve Ensler, and others. He also tackled antisemitism in his production of Artur Schnitzler&#8217;s <em>Professor Bernhardi <\/em>for his company Dumbfounded at the Arcola Theatre (2005).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Giant <\/em>opened in September 2024, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl. Rosenblatt has said that <em>The Giant<\/em>, which focuses on a meeting between writer Roald Dahl and his Jewish publishers, began in 2017, when the British debates about Israel and the Palestinian territories became blurred with antisemitic undertones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a British Jew I became concerned about explicitly antisemitic stereotyping and prejudice. There was a lot going on in the period from the investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party and I was very aware of the language being used by people \u2013 sometimes deliberately, sometimes unconsciously. I felt quite passionate about it and I thought well, maybe we could find a way of dramatising it.\u201d (in John Nathan, &#8220;Why I tackled Roald Dahl\u2019s antisemitism in my Royal Court play&#8221;, <em>The Jewish Chronicle<\/em>, September 19, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rosenblatt is a British theatre director and writer best known for his play The Giant, which opened in 2024 at the Royal Court Theatre and subsequently received a West End transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2025. Previously, he worked as a director, winning the JMK Young Director&#8217;s Award for his work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":565,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3231\/revisions\/3235"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}