{"id":54545,"date":"2018-03-19T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=54545"},"modified":"2018-03-19T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:09:33","slug":"ahmed-tobasi-takes-and-here-i-am-on-a-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2018\/03\/ahmed-tobasi-takes-and-here-i-am-on-a-world-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Tobasi takes ‘And Here I Am’ on a world tour!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on the actor Ahmed Tobasi\u2019s personal coming of age story, ‘And Here I Am<\/a>‘<\/em>\u00a0is an epic voyage of identity and self discovery. Tobasi is a former student and\u00a0graduate of The Freedom\u00a0<\/a>Theatre school<\/a> and was born in Jenin refugee camp.<\/span>
\nCombining fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, spanning both the first Palestinian intifada and the second, we follow Tobasi through his transformation from armed resistance fighter to artist, \u00a0and his journey as a refugee from the West Bank to Norway and back again.<\/span>
\nThis series of tragicomic episodes is vividly brought to life by award winning writer Hassan Abdlrazzak\u00a0and\u00a0directed by British director Zoe Lafferty,\u00a0transporting\u00a0\u00a0us to the heart of the hardships, struggles and contradictions of a young Palestinian man growing up under occupation and his pursuit for the true meaning of freedom.<\/span>
\n‘And Here I Am<\/a>‘<\/em>,\u00a0previously performed to great acclaim in the UK and presented to audiences in Jenin and\u00a0the\u00a0West\u00a0Bank; Tobasi will now be performing at several festivals, taking the show on a world tour.\u00a0Read the full interview with Ahmed Tobasi about\u00a0‘And Here I Am’ <\/em>here.<\/a><\/span>
\nLetter: Fragments of a\u00a0Memory exhibition, Abu Dhabi<\/strong><\/span>
\n Thursday, March 15, 7:00pm (Arabic with English subtitles)<\/span>
\nDowntown Contemporary Arts Festival, Cairo, Egypt<\/strong><\/span>
\n Saturday\u00a0March 24, 6:15pm\u00a0Rawabet Theatre (English)<\/span>
\n Sunday\u00a0March 25, 6:15pm\u00a0Rawabet Theatre (Arabic)<\/span>
\n Monday\u00a0March 26, 8:30pm Rawabet Theatre (Arabic)<\/span>
\nCultural Resistance Festival of Palestinian Theatre, Jenin camp, Palestine<\/strong><\/span>
\n Wednesday April 4, \u00a02:00pm The Freedom Theatre\u00a0(English)<\/span>
\n Wednesday April 4, 6:00pm The Freedom Theatre\u00a0(Arabic)<\/span>
\nKristinand, Tromso and Oslo,\u00a0Norway (English)
\n<\/strong>Sunday 22nd April, Kristinand<\/span>
\n Wednesday, April 25, Tromso
\nFriday, April 27, 7.30pm\u00a0Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo
\nSaturday, April 28, 7.30pm Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo<\/span>
\nHarare International Festival of Arts, Zimbabwe (English)<\/strong><\/span>
\n Thursday 3rd May, Harare<\/span>
\n Friday 4th May, Harare<\/span>
\n Saturday 5th May, Harare<\/span>
\nMore dates to be added soon.<\/span>
\nAND HERE I AM is generously supported by the following organisations:<\/span>
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\n\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\"\"
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\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on the actor Ahmed Tobasi\u2019s personal coming of age story, ‘And Here I Am‘\u00a0is an epic voyage of identity and self discovery. Tobasi is a former student and\u00a0graduate of The Freedom\u00a0Theatre school and was born in Jenin refugee camp. Combining fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, spanning both the first Palestinian intifada and the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54545","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\/54545","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=54545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54545\/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=54545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}