12~THE BULLETIW—TROrsday; November 4, 1^76
Jewish items in U.S. time copsule
WILMINGTON, DEL. ^ A Bicentennial time capsule Which included' material  related to Jewish history was buried recently in Wilmington Square.
According to the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware,
the capsule contained ♦•The History of the Jews in Delaware" by Rabbi M. David Geffen; and the Jewish Histoiical Society's publication "Jewish' Delaware: History, Site^, Conununal :,Ser,-vices." ■.
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EXPLORE DRAMATIZING GOLDA ON BROADWAY
, American play wright William Gibson was racanfly in Israel trying to bring Goldo's life believobly to the stage, but neither he nor she is siire itwill ever happen.
BY MATTHEW NESVISKY ? .
. Wn^LIAM.'. CraSON, one of America's top playwrigtits; recently visited Israel tO: e}q>lore
i   the. possibilities ;^.of'dramatizing * - the life of Golda Meir. *V   But he may never write the play. Golda has signed the foniract and is resigned tp the project4 ' but,personally,she isn't all that crazy,about the whole idea. '  In addition there are GibscAi's T- own private misgivings^ and there may„'be?a serious legal snag. Gibsonivas tajiped for the writing job by ;PhiIip Langner, president of the New York Theatre Gmld^ who last spring secured the stage; ' option;tDMrs.Meir'shest-seIlini5 autobiography, "MyLife."Shortly! after the contract was signed,^ howevef, it was pointed out that Lionel Bart, of i'^Olivei-" fame, ^ had p/evibUs]y>rannoUnced r ' in . London that he was planning to mouiif a musical stage version based on Golda's life. %  Presumably; opposing fleets of,' well-rai^ined lawyers will steam ' into ' the mid-Atlantic to .clash over ownership ot v the: former^^ f Prime Minister'&story^Langnery;^ 'nonetheless; asked Gibson to go to Israel and start preparations for a scrU>t. ■
. THE OBACT of all this at-) tention allows that^ she's lessv.v than, enthusiastic about having, her lite played out on the boards;;^ whether with musical accompani-^!^ ment or *a capellal <*character-j istidally, she agreed <Mily if it in some-way might;;he^good^f6r;; Israel. ' But  she approves of^ 'Gibson and is; xiooperating with; •liimv evenr<«lhile:Gibsoni-.^ha has: •never /undertaken a ,play, "on assignment'!-: before^ v confesr^ ses that,  intriguing as Golda's story is, it just might present "Insoluble" ,problems for dram- • atizationt- j ^ ,
Still;- tfie Theatre^Ginl^ president seemed to know what he was doing ^ when'he ' chose ^ William Gibson/ foe vtheprojectvi^i^^ was ; surelyl aware; of^'GUisbii^s remarkable ability to bring female characters ;to life on the :stage: Anne Sullivan of "The Miracle Worker,"^ GitUe Mosca of "Two for die Seesaw."ivAbijgail Adams of "American Primitive" and Anne Hathaway Shakespeare of "A Cry of Players." v
And he no doubt remembered :^ Gibson as the talented technical tinker who collaborated with:'; Cliflbrd Odets to make "Golden^ Boy" a hit.
GIBSON   MODESTLY says|^ he canv«nly?give it-avtry. "Just^;-; which  Golda ai^ we. talking ^ about?"", he asks., ''There's the reaKGolda > and tf^e.dne who exists in die Americian mind. Now my play, clearly will bean American product^ - written by - an - American for -American audiences. I can't imagine suiting Israelis with my story. "And yet I'm not about to write a lie. '   **The Hadassah women who make up Broadway theatre parties often tend to. think of Golda as a quintessential ideal, of themselves - die good Jewish woman stirring die chicken soup. Yet i) we know wlut Golda^;shared with;;:^ ,any successful;^ political: leader - an extremelylhard-driving; even
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"How do we reconcile these two images?"
IN BRAEL, Gibson interviewed two or three people a day,: delved into Zionist archives and' read-everydiing he could lay his hands on, all to-, get a fix on Golda.
"The picture is cmisistent. Older people tend to hold her in awe, while the youngergeneration naturally holds her accountable for all kinds of eirrors. But for good or j^nout^t, everyone is just overwhelmed -by. how she drove herself to get^things drnie, and how she drove-bothers as well."
One of Gib's<m's favorite stories about Golda concerns the time the Prime Minij^terrrwas leaving a building with?i3ome: coUeagifes V when she spotted an Arab porter laboring up the stairs with, a -piano or some such equally awe-: some burden. Golda reportedly halted, blocked the way; and bellowed, to her associates: "That's just what's wrong with this country. That man struggles' alone under that load while you men go. tripping by with your litUe biiefcases. Well, nobody leaves until you help him» do: you hear?" ,Tbey heard and (Aeyed. , ^
How to put this complex personality credibly oiv stage? Technically, Gibson thinks that thev traditional well-made'three'^> acter will be inadequate for the subject, and envisions "a more : fluid, even symphonic structure" to-depict Golda's. nature and careibr, most Ukely not in chronological order.^
What's his secret fox getting into the female psyche; an accomplishment for,iwldch Gibson -has been repeatedly praised? He laughs. "I just write about womea as if they were men." ;
BUT AS AN American, raised as a Catholic in the Bronx, just how close can he get to Golda's soul?
"V/ell," be chuckles,^ "i like to think of myself as an honorary Jew. I grew up with them, married one, was accepted into a Jewish family - and I've been
known' to preside over many « Passover seder. And I'm in )ov6 with Israel. ^   -~ " ^
•at*8 the oiflyiifstwfer^^ in history in whieli a nation was founded out of a' minral imperative. The foundingoftheU.S., of other modem states, was die result of evolutionary history, almost predictable political and economic events. But the rebirth of Israel wasn't just a matter of class struggle or currents of social development. It wa^ a moral idea taking state form.
"When I was 0rst approached about this play," he concludes, "my initial reaction was negative - for aU the misgivings mentioned earlier. 'But then I read Golda's autobiography, and I was overwhelmed by the woman, the career^ thetremendous dramatic possibilities.
"It's a story that, for all its potential difficulties, cries out to be told." (Jerusalem Post)
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