PAN launch event June 16
Welcome to attend the official launching event of the Palestinian Performing Arts Network (PAN) on Tuesday June 16th at 17:00-19:00 at the Al Bireh Municipality Cultural Centre. PAN is the outcome of four years of intensive collaboration between some of Palestine’s most experienced art managers, artists and organisations. The launching event, which will include performances […]
Summer activities at The Freedom Theatre
We start off the summer season at The Freedom Theatre with a theatre play, storytelling and a photo exhibition. After Ramadan we will organise summer camps in drama, photography and drawing. More to come soon! June 13&14: Storytelling performances Our Theatre School students invite the children of Jenin to two days of storytelling. The stories are […]
Courage, Ouda, Courage’ performed in Amsterdam
May 31st, ‘Courage, Ouda, Courage’ will be performed in Amsterdam! 20:30, at Theater Perdu, Kloverniersburgwal 86. Entrance 15€. Ouda, an old man, a refugee, slaves away for his tyrannical his boss, a hotel restaurant manager. Now, he stands beside the grave of his mother. While walking through the cemetery he meets a friend and visits […]
The Siege – uncomfortable, heartbreaking, brilliant!
The Siege has received exceptional reviews during the first part of its UK tour, which included a sold-out run at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. “One would struggle to find a more authentic piece of theatre, or indeed one that speaks to such a brutally urgent case of injustice” stated The Public Reviews, while […]
Launch of ‘Art and Community’ co-written by Micaela Miranda
‘Art and Community’ (original title Arte e Comunidade in Portuguese), a book co-written by The Freedom Theatre’s Micaela Miranda, will be launched in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 5th. In the book, Micaela Miranda talks about The Freedom Theatre’s work, the power of theatre in personal change and how change starts from the individual and from there […]
The Siege UK tour begins!
On May 13, The Freedom Theatre begins its first-ever tour of Britain with a performance of The Siege at The Lowry in Manchester. The Siege is an artistic reflection on a crucial event in recent Palestinian history, the Israeli army’s 39-day siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem during the height of the second Intifada. While the dramatic scenes of the […]
Shakespeare workshop at The Freedom Theatre
An important part of the training in The Freedom Theatre School is the discovery of Shakespeare. Currently our students are taking a workshop with British director Di Trevis, who has worked at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. The students learn about the Elizabethan court through its dances, study […]
5-day directing workshop in Jenin
The Freedom Theatre is proud to invite all professionals interested in a Director’s Workshop with Di Trevis. From May 6-10 (with a break on Friday), we offer an intensive workshop in which the concept of directing will be studied profoundly. Along with the study the workshop participants will be doing practical work with The Freedom Theatre’s acting […]
UK Tour Launch Events in York, London and Manchester
In anticipation of the UK Tour of The Freedom Theatre’s brand new production The Siege, events are happening in York, London and Manchester from April 30 through the first week of May. We hope to see you there! FILM SCREENING IN YORK! Thursday April 30th at 21:30, Journey of A Freedom Fighter will be screened at Pop Up […]
The Siege completes West Bank tour
Receiving outstanding reviews, The Siege by The Freedom Theatre has just ended a series of sold-out performances across the West Bank. Large audiences from Jenin to Bethlehem were captured throughout the play; laughing, crying and cheering as the story of the siege of Bethlehem in 2002 unfolded. “We chose to portray the siege of the Church of the Nativity because it was such an important […]