{"id":54699,"date":"2018-05-20T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T11:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=54699"},"modified":"2018-05-20T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T11:07:18","slug":"look-back-to-international-adventures-with-rtp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2018\/05\/look-back-to-international-adventures-with-rtp\/","title":{"rendered":"Look back to international adventures with Return to Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, we updated\u00a0you on\u00a0the international tour of\u00a0Return to Palestine<\/a><\/em>. After some exciting weeks, we would like to look back on the adventures\u00a0of our team in Turkey and Jordan.
\nFrom Portugal to Turkey<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe international trip was\u00a0supposed to kick off at the\u00a0Devir Capa Festival in Portugal. In April, we updated you on why the team unfortunately couldn’t\u00a0perform there (read the whole article here<\/a>). Despite the initial disappointment about Portugal, at the end of,\u00a0our team headed\u00a0to Turkey to perform in Konya. In Turkey, they performed at the Konya Theatre Festival and despite the language barrier, the response\u00a0to the play was extremely positive and we hope to take part again next year!
\nGreat success in Jordan
\n<\/strong><\/span>Within the same week, at the start\u00a0of May, our\u00a0team traveled from Konya to Amman, Jordan. Here, they performed Return to Palestine<\/em><\/span> twice at the International Festival of Liberal Theatre, and the reception of the play was overwhelming. Talks with the audience after the shows made clear there is a lot of recognition in the story, especially from Palestinians living in Jordan. The festival also enabled us to build\u00a0on our international network, with theatre people from Switzerland, Germany, Canada and Russia\u00a0who all showed great\u00a0interest in the play, opening up new\u00a0international opportunities for The Freedom Theatre.
\nTo top it off, the last night of the festival was award night. Again, our team received a lot of praise for their performance, and this was confirmed by the award for best acting performance, won by Alaa Shehada. Below, a brief\u00a0interview with Alaa about this great accomplishment, together with some pictures of the night.
\nInterview with Alaa Shehada
\n<\/strong><\/span>Alaa, you won an award for your acting performance in <\/strong>Return to Palestine<\/span><\/em>, at the International Festival of Liberal Theatre in Amman, Jordan. Congratulations!<\/strong>
\nIs this the first time you won an award at a theatre festival?
\n<\/strong>\u201cPretty much, yes. As The Freedom Theatre, we don\u2019t go to a lot of festivals, although we do travel internationally with some of our productions. The most important for us is to share our story with the world. Our main focus is not in the field of festivals or to win awards, but since we got invited to the festival in Jordan, this was a good opportunity to share our story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most important for us is to share our story with the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

What does it mean to you, to win an award like that?
\n<\/strong>\u201cFirst of all, we<\/i> won the award, because it\u2019s a collective work, a team work. The theatre production Return to Palestine<\/em><\/span> is very physical. This means there has to be a good communication between the actors. In order for the action to happen, the connection between those who are playing the action and those who are not is important. So this is a collective work.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAnd I think the award means a lot to us, as The Freedom Theatre, because it means that we are doing a good job and that there is appreciation for our work, not just in Palestine but also abroad. That means that we are on the right path, and this gives us energy to continue with our work. I think we are doing good as a theatre and as an artistic organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

And I think the award means a lot to us, as The Freedom Theatre, because it means that we are doing a good job\u00a0<\/em>and that there is appreciation for our work, also abroad.<\/em><\/p>\n

Can you tell us something about your next plans, maybe with The Freedom Theatre also?
\n<\/strong>\u201cYes, let\u2019s not call it plans, let\u2019s call it ideas. I want to do activities that are related to the comedy work I did in the UK (Showtime from the Frontline<\/em>) and in Holland (A Room with a View<\/em>). I want to be in Palestine this summer and create these kinds of comedy shows and work here, in Jenin city and all over the West Bank. It will be in the comedy field, for example physical comedy, stand-up comedy and the work I do with Red Noses International in hospitals. Maybe some stand-up comedy during Ramadan, after people have had their breakfast, and they have full bellies, they can come to relax their bellies by laughter.\u201d
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\nThanks to Sami F. Alzoubi for the photography.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, we updated\u00a0you on\u00a0the international tour of\u00a0Return to Palestine. After some exciting weeks, we would like to look back on the adventures\u00a0of our team in Turkey and Jordan. From Portugal to Turkey The international trip was\u00a0supposed to kick off at the\u00a0Devir Capa Festival in Portugal. In April, we updated you on why the team […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54699","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\/54699","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=54699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54699\/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=54699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}