{"id":51720,"date":"2016-05-24T09:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T06:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=51720"},"modified":"2016-05-24T09:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T06:51:33","slug":"deconstructing-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2016\/05\/deconstructing-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing borders: a theatrical call for Palestinian unification and return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ashtar Theatre and The Freedom Theatre are embarking on a joint\u00a0journey to perform and hold workshops in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. The cooperation between the two theatres will combine\u00a0the interactive and community theatre specialities of The Freedom Theatre and Ashtar Theatre into an action of solidarity to call for the unification of Palestinians and the right of the refugees to return to Palestine. The journey is made in connection to\u00a0the annual commemoration of Al\u00a0Nakba, the catastrophe in 1948 when more than 750,000 Palestinians were\u00a0expelled from their homeland by Zionist forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through interactive workshops and performances, accounts by Palestinian refugees\u00a0will be shared and enacted by Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. Our\u00a0aim with this journey is to create long-lasting networks among Palestinian populations fragmented by the deliberate policies of the Israeli occupation powers. For us,\u00a0this is a symbolic act of the joint Palestinian cultural resistance when we unite across borders, across the fractioning within our society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Freedom Theatre will perform\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/return-to-palestine\/\">Return to Palestine<\/a>, a street theatre play\u00a0that centres around a Palestinian born in America, who\u00a0goes to Palestine for the first time in his life and is confronted with a reality that is very different from what he expected.\u00a0The play will be performed in public spaces and schools in refugee camps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ashtar Theatre will perform\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashtar-theatre.org\/te-gaza-mono-logues.html\">Gaza Monologues<\/a>, written by theatre students in Gaza in 2010 and 2014 after the Israeli aggressions on the Gaza Strip, as well as\u00a0a theatrical reading of \u2018The Syrian Monologues\u2019 written by Syrian refugees in Jordan. The authors of the monologues and other Syrian refugees will attend the performance, held at <span class=\"s1\">the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">National Center for Culture and Art in Amman<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dates and details:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">May 26,\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashtar-theatre.org\/te-gaza-mono-logues.html\">Gaza Monologues<\/a>&#8216; by Ashtar Theatre performed\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">in the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">National Center for Culture and Art, Amman, Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">May 26-28,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Forum Theatre Workshop by Ashtar Theatre in Hetten refugee camp, Jordan\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">May 27, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/return-to-palestine\/\">Return to Palestine<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0by The Freedom Theatre and theatrical reading of &#8216;The Syrian Monologues&#8217; by Ashtar Theatre in Hetten refugee camp, Jordan<br \/>\nMay 28, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/return-to-palestine\/\">Return to Palestine<\/a>&#8216; by The Freedom Theatre performed in Hetten refugee camp, Jordan<br \/>\nMay 29, The Syrian Monologues by Ashtar Theatre and Return to Palestine by The Freedom Theatre performed in\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">National Center for Culture and Art, Amman, Jordan<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">May 29, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/return-to-palestine\/\">Return to Palestine<\/a>&#8216; by The Freedom Theatre performed\u00a0<\/span>in\u00a0Al Wehdat refugee camp, Jordan<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/news\/the-freedom-theatre-and-ashtar-theatre-bring-interactive-theatre-to-the-streets\/\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51734 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-24-at-10.33.10.png\" alt=\"Supporters\" width=\"680\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashtar Theatre and The Freedom Theatre are embarking on a joint\u00a0journey to perform and hold workshops in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. The cooperation between the two theatres will combine\u00a0the interactive and community theatre specialities of The Freedom Theatre and Ashtar Theatre into an action of solidarity to call for the unification of Palestinians and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51720","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\/51720","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=51720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51720\/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=51720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}