so he introduced terje and i. he&he came to see my last play, "blood and gifts." you were very kind about it, and we went out for drinks. and as he talked-- i knew the vaguest outline. there had been a back channel for the oslo accords but i'm embarrassed to say now in hindsight i would have given all the credit to the clinton administration, say 97%. and as terje and i were talking over drinks a stone's throw from the theater, i realized there was a floor underneath the floor, to me, a secret i didn't know. and he, to his credit, really didn't want to talk about what he had done. he wanted to talk about the extraordinary efforts of the israelis and palestinians to meet. as a storytaler, you say is that really? and when i traveled to interview her she did not want to talk about herself. >> rose: jennifer, what were you trying to capture for mona? >> i think the important thing about the mona who is in the play, she very cautious. she's a diplomat. she's very much an animal of diploam peace and chooses when she speaks very carefully. a population exploding with no

terje: yes, and there are possibilities. charlie: they are trying right now. terje: we'll see.rlie: when you went from lincoln center to broadway, to the david beaumont, bradley said he found the stage for an expensive play. what did he mean? >> we were in a small 300 seat theater and we went up to a n 1100 seat theater. it is a sprawling place, covering 64 scenes. having been many musicals and gideon beaumont, this was harder than any of the musicals i had to be there. it changes so quickly, such a fast momentum, that what we wanted to make was an international thriller to take the historic events, which take do,berative slow-paced to and draw the intellectual into the excitement of coming to a conclusion and give them the experience in a theatrical way of the possibility of things working out, so that was exciting and different doing it in june and after the election. we find now that it is more about republicans than democrats , then tossed the onions and israelis. audiences have a greater longing for hope now than they did when we did in june. bartlett: they seem to be stru

rodgers the director of bart will you tell sher and terje rod-larsen between the israel and jennifer ehle who plays his wife. i'm pleased to have all of them at this table. welcome. did you have a lot of playwrights and film collectors beating their path to your doorway saying there's a great play there's a great movie about this. >> i actually think it is a great play though it doesn't portray exactly what happened. it's not history but it captures very much i think the spirit of what's happened in oslo in 1993. i think it's a great job and it's actually a little bit awkward for me to sit here beside my wife. she did a great job portraying the role of my wife. >> rose: captured the spirit the what was the spirit. >> the spirit of oslo i think is hope. i think one of the reasons why i think it's a full house every day now is that at this day and time where we have chaos and anarchy in ganglands across the world, i think ittportrays a message of hope that is possible to do the impossible, namely to bring adversary ease together to great friendship and actually reach an agreement that