Core Training in Playback Theatre with Jo Salas
In this four-day intensive workshop, you will learn and practice the basic elements of Playback Theatre through the sharing and enactment of participant stories. Various Playback forms will be taught including Fluid Sculptures, Pairs, Scenes and more. In an environment of playfulness, spontaneity and camaraderie each student will have a chance to experience the roles […]
The Caretaker at Al Kasaba
We start the New Year off by announcing that our talented Acting School students will perform The Caretaker at Al Kasaba Theatre in Ramallah, on January 17 at 7 pm. A stranger is brought home by Aston. His room seems familiar but is disconnected from the world. The balance of power shifts between them and […]
Foundations of Playback Theatre in Egypt
PLAYBACK THEATRE is an interactive theatre approach used in over 50 countries as a tool for community building, trauma response and cultural activism. In a Playback event, audience members share personal stories, and watch as a team of actors and musicians transform these accounts into improvised theatre pieces. Playback Theatre responds to the fundamental need […]
Solidarity stay in the Jordan Valley
Join with the people of Fasay’il al-Fauqa and Fasay’il al-Wusta in their struggle to remain on community land. This solidarity stay will include building work, interactive discussions, Playback Theatre and traditional music. Join us for part, or all, of this 3-day event! Organized by the people of Fasay’il al-Fauqa, Fasay’il al-Wusta, Jordan Valley Solidarity and […]
Help us generate cultural resistance – this year too
We look forward to a new year of restless struggle for a free and equal Palestine; a struggle in which we take front position by continuing to generate a cultural resistance. During 2013 we will present a new class of Acting School students and new Freedom Bus rides, joining populations facing forced evictions and ethnic […]
Stolen dreams
Stolen Dreams tells the story of the dreams of the Palestinian people that were stolen because of internal and external pressures. The play reflects the suffering of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the dialogue between violence and culture, and the hidden hands who killed the symbol of culture Juliano Mer Khamis. Sunday, December 16th, 2012 […]
Caligula
The Freedom Theatre and Al Kasaba Theatre cordially invite you to attend the performance of Caligula, by Albert Camus. Caligula is the story of the most human and the most tragic of errors. Unfaithful to man, loyal to himself, Caligula consents to die for having understood that no one can save himself all alone and […]
603
In the Israeli prison of Ashkelon, in cell 603, four Palestinian men see themselves crushed by history and take refuge in fantasy. Today their then-heroic acts seem pointless. In prison the longing for people outside prevails, and the longing for a life in freedom – but what shape could that life take? For years they […]
Freedom Bus auditions
The Freedom Bus is currently holding auditions for its Playback Theatre troupe. In particular we welcome individuals with significant life experience and a deep commitment to community service, political action, artistic expression and personal growth. Troupe members must be prepared to travel extensively and live and work in challenging conditions throughout the West Bank of […]
Battir: Heritage under threat
Join us this Friday, November 30th, for a solidarity visit to the village of Battir. Like other Palestinian villages in the area, Battir’s ancient heritage and ecosystem is currently threatened by Israel’s planned construction of the Apartheid Wall. Battir is home to a unique ecosystem and terrace agriculture irrigated through a system of aqueducts dating […]