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‘Captors’: history in the making

By Laura Collins-Hughes

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 06, 2011

Evan M. Wiener does not want to, as he puts it, “pimp the history.’’ It rankles him when playwrights do that, when they assert - falsely - that the drawn-from-life story they’re telling occurred at a significantly game-changing moment. His new play, “Captors,’’ about the 1960 capture of fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents, makes precisely that claim, but Wiener says that in this case it’s true. The play begins previews Friday at the Huntington Theatre Company, where Peter DuBois directs its world-premiere production.

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