'We've been ashamed of our voice': the secret history of UK Jewish theatre
The US has a rich tradition of Jewish theatre " but in the UK it's been more circumspect. Artists from Hofesh Shechter to Tracy Ann Oberman explain why I ask the Israeli-born, British-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter if he considers himself a particularly Jewish artist. He sighs, then nods assent. "Unfortunately." It's perhaps the ultimate Jewish answer " sardonic, sorrowed, self-aware, all in a single word. In a …