A play on the Madoff financial scandal that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel branded "obscene" and "defamatory" is set to open in New York.
The renowned human rights campaigner had threatened legal action over the play, which depicted a fictional conversation between disgraced financier Bernie Madoff and Mr Wiesel.
But despite opposition from the Holocaust survivor, Imagining Madoff will go ahead, although in a small Hudson theatre rather than in its original Washington location.
Playwright Deb Margolin has had to revise her script to remove mention of Mr Wiesel, although much of the dialogue is unchanged. She has replaced him with an octogenarian Holocaust survivor called Solomon Galkin.
