{"id":54505,"date":"2018-03-05T11:33:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=54505"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:33:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:33:12","slug":"nabil-al-raee-returns-as-artistic-director-at-the-freedom-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2018\/03\/nabil-al-raee-returns-as-artistic-director-at-the-freedom-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabil Al-Raee returns as Artistic Director at The Freedom Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the appointment of Nabil Al-Raee\u00a0as the Artistic Director of The Freedom Theatre.<br \/>\nNabil Al-Raee joined The Freedom Theatre in 2007, initially to lead theatre workshops for youth. The first play he directed was\u00a0<i>The Journey,<\/i>\u00a0depicting the\u00a0experiences of a group of young people longing to travel to the sea. He continued to\u00a0stage plays, teach at The Freedom Theatre Acting School and develop the pedagogy of the school with Juliano Mer Khamis and Micaela Miranda. After the assassination of Juliano Mer Khamis in 2011,\u00a0Nabil assumed responsibility for the artistic\u00a0direction of the theatre, and together with his colleagues developed a pedagogy\u00a0of theatre under occupation, about\u00a0which he lectures and participates in conferences internationally and in Palestine.\u00a0He continued his theatrical work on stage with one of our last productions, The Siege, before taking some time out for his own projects. He returns, once again and is currently working on a production with a theatre in Pakistan, a collaboration of both Palestinian and Pakistani ar<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">tists exploring The Power of Narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\nHis invaluable experience with The Freedom Theatre&#8217;s Acting School will contribute to the programme once more when the new cohort of students will begin in September 2018.\u00a0A statement by The Freedom Theatre in 2011 still rings true today:<br \/>\n\u201c<em>Our work will always be part and parcel of the Palestinian resistance against the several occupations we face. We follow in the footsteps of the cultural icons of the resistance movement who painted in their various works the most beautiful pictures of patriotism and connection to this land that is entitled to life, as was uttered by Mahmoud Darwish in one of his poems. We shall persevere for our beautiful Palestine, striving for unlimited freedom<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\nA warm welcome to Nabil from everyone at The Freedom Theatre, our friends and supporters in Palestine and abroad.<br \/>\nAll artistic enquiries can be directed to Nabil Al-Raee\u00a0as the Artistic Director of The Freedom Theatre: nabeel@thefreedomtheatre.org.\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the appointment of Nabil Al-Raee\u00a0as the Artistic Director of The Freedom Theatre. Nabil Al-Raee joined The Freedom Theatre in 2007, initially to lead theatre workshops for youth. The first play he directed was\u00a0The Journey,\u00a0depicting the\u00a0experiences of a group of young people longing to travel to the sea. He continued to\u00a0stage [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54505","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\/54505","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=54505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54505\/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=54505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}