{"id":50928,"date":"2015-11-08T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T11:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=50928"},"modified":"2015-11-08T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T11:59:13","slug":"the-island-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2015\/11\/the-island-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Island&#8217; in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Friends in France, we are soon coming your way with a small tour of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/the-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Island<\/a><\/em>! Performances in Montreuil and Arcueil, November 27, 28 and December 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>The Island <\/em>is a\u00a0South African apartheid-era drama, inspired by a true story. It is\u00a0set in a prison and revolves around two cellmates: one who is soon to be released while the other is serving a life sentence. They spend their days at mind-numbing physical labour and at night rehearse for a performance of Sophocles&#8217; Antigone. Antigone, who defies the laws of the state to follow her conscience, and her uncle who sentences her to die for her crime. Is Antigone guilty? Who decides?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Freedom Theatre\u2019s adaptation of <i>The Island<\/i> reflects the experiences of Palestinian political prisoners and the abuses within the Israeli prison system. The play also highlights the parallels between apartheid South Africa and Palestine today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><strong>November 27, at 14:00<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>November 27 and 28, at 20:30<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Berthelot, Montreuil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 1, at 20:30<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Espace Jean Vilar, Arcueil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more details, contact our Friends Association in France, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/friends-supporters\/france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATL J\u00e9nine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50934\" src=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-08-at-14.01.11.png\" alt=\"The Island\" width=\"377\" height=\"547\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends in France, we are soon coming your way with a small tour of The Island! Performances in Montreuil and Arcueil, November 27, 28 and December 1. The Island is a\u00a0South African apartheid-era drama, inspired by a true story. It is\u00a0set in a prison and revolves around two cellmates: one who is soon to be [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-theatre-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}