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Crows Theatre has Toronto under siege. First, there was the company's much-ballyhooed remount of I, Claudia, which has just been extended due to popular demand. Then, last weekend, the company hosted The Directors' Showcase & Exchange, which involved a fascinating panel discussion by some of the country's most prolific and accomplished theatre directors. It also featured the performance of several plays, including a reading of Caryl Churchill's controversial new work Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza. Written in January as a response to the recent attack on Gaza, the ten-minute piece has been highly acclaimed by some, and dismissed as anti-Semitic propaganda by others, including B'nai Brith, which tried to protest the work's being performed in Toronto. We found the piece powerful, tragic, and ultimately very human, less interested in pointing fingers than drawing attention to the complexity and the sadness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

THEATRE: Director Chris Abraham and playwright Anton Piatgorsky reunite after more than five years for the world premiere of Eternal Hydra. A play about identity politics and the myth of artistic genius, it examines the controversy surrounding the authorship of a long-lost manuscript, believed to be the work of an iconoclastic writer. The Crow's Theatre production features some of Toronto’s most celebrated actors, including David Ferry and Liisa Repo-Martell. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander Street), preview at 8 p.m., $15.

Claudia may be Canada's favourite official pre-teen. The star of Kristen Thomson's one-woman masterpiece, I, Claudia, has been delighting audiences for the better part of a decade. Since the play's 2001 premiere at Tarragon Theatre, it's toured the country, won multiple awards, been adapted into a wonderful film for CBC's (now defunct) Opening Night series, and, most recently, been performed by actors other than Thomson. Now, it's back to Toronto with a remount that opened last week at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.