After his first interview of a survivor of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, playwright Phelim McAleer says he knew he had to write a play telling the true story of that day.

Following performances in New York City, the play “OCTOBER 7” will be performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28.

“I just realized this is like a movie, a bad movie, and I knew after the first interview, we had an amazing story,” McAleer, a journalist, playwright, and filmmaker, told The Daily Signal.

McAleer and his wife, Ann McElhinney, reside in Los Angeles but are originally from Ireland. They happened to be in Europe when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking another 251 people hostage to Gaza.

The couple observed how Europeans immediately talked “about the tragedy of the electricity being........

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