{"id":52499,"date":"2017-01-13T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=52499"},"modified":"2017-01-13T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T14:28:57","slug":"comedy-club-with-mark-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2017\/01\/comedy-club-with-mark-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy Club with Mark Thomas and Sam Beale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Freedom Theatre has the honour of welcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markthomasinfo.co.uk\/\">Mark Thomas<\/a>, British comedian, presenter, political satirist and journalist, and Sam Beale,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">senior lecturer in\u00a0Theatre Arts at Middlesex University, London, who\u00a0has\u00a0developed the university&#8217;s Solo Performance programme and\u00a0taught stand-up comedy for over 20 years. Beale and Thomas will give\u00a0<\/span>an intensive comedy workshop at The Freedom Theatre, with the aim of establishing the first comedy club in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starting January 21, graduates of The Freedom Theatre School and other artists mainly from the theatre, will be introduced to the key elements of stand-up comedy and given the opportunity to begin exploring their individual comic voices. A combination of group and individual performance exercises and practical explorations will encourage the participants to develop their comic personas and explore a range of performance attitudes as well as beginning to create and write their own stand-up comedy material.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We will start with ourselves and expand further from there&#8221;, explains Nabil Al-Raee from The Freedom Theatre. &#8220;We hope to establish a comedy club and\u00a0be able to offer frequent socio-political stand-up comedy in Jenin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Thomas is a long-time friend of The Freedom Theatre and in conversations during the theatre&#8217;s 2015 UK tour of <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/productions-productions\/the-siege\/\"><em>The Siege<\/em><\/a>, the idea of a collaboration was born and further developed during Mark Thomas&#8217;\u00a0visit to The Freedom Theatre in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In\u00a0April, Mark Thomas and his team will return to work with the same participants towards a public presentation. Thomas also intends to take some of the new stand-up artists on tour with him in the UK and possibly elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom Theatre has the honour of welcoming Mark Thomas, British comedian, presenter, political satirist and journalist, and Sam Beale,\u00a0senior lecturer in\u00a0Theatre Arts at Middlesex University, London, who\u00a0has\u00a0developed the university&#8217;s Solo Performance programme and\u00a0taught stand-up comedy for over 20 years. Beale and Thomas will give\u00a0an intensive comedy workshop at The Freedom Theatre, with the aim [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52499","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\/52499","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=52499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499\/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=52499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}