BOULDER – The most difficult conversations to have in 2025 are those that actually aspire to be respectful, even-handed and have no preconceived point of view.

Pick your poisoned partisan tongue: Trump. Gender. DEI. Ukraine. Climate change. The NBA MVP. Or perhaps the most forbidden topic of all at the moment: Israel-Palestine. Good luck with that one.

How do you even have “the conversation” when both sides are entrenched up to their eyeballs in intractable talking points?

If you are Boulder playwright Ami Dayan, you write it.

Dayan spent much of last year touring a short play all over Colorado that tried to focus the dialogue in the aftermath of Oct. 7 on the one thing both sides have in common: Mothers. And in the end, it didn’t get him very far. The well-intentioned exercise wasn’t

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