{"id":55250,"date":"2019-04-28T19:54:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=55250"},"modified":"2019-04-28T19:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T16:54:19","slug":"and-here-i-am-wins-best-show-in-sharm-el-sheikh-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2019\/04\/and-here-i-am-wins-best-show-in-sharm-el-sheikh-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018And Here I Am\u2019\u00a0wins Best Show in Sharm El Sheikh festival!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huge congratulations to Ahmed Tobasi on his win in April 2019 for the best monodrama at the Sharm El Sheikh Internatio<\/span>nal Theatre Festival For Youth for ‘And Here I Am\u2019! Based on Tobasi\u2019s own life story, the play also stands for a whole generation of Palestinians \u201cin search for freedom of the body, mind and soul since the Palestinian identity is forever intertwined with the occupation, with oppression and a refugee status\u201d. (Read the whole interview with Tobasi here<\/a>.)<\/span>
\nSharm El Sheikh Internatio<\/span>nal Theatre Festival For Youth brings together contributions from the Arab and the Western world, with \u2018And Here I Am\u2019 having competed in the monodrama category with plays from France, Syria and Egypt.<\/span>
\nJust as the play wants to tell more than just the story of one individual, so does the price have more meaning to Tobasi than just honouring some individual\u2019s work and talent:<\/span><\/p>\n

We were all thirsty for something, we as The Freedom Theatre, the camp, the community, so this price came at a time when it made everything alive. Everyone felt proud even if they had not been in the festival or in the play and the trust came back that we can really do something. We can really win. And if this kind of subject wins a price, then we can continue. This is why I think the award is important. It\u2019s not for me. It\u2019s for all these people who are watching me enter the theatre each day, asking: What\u2019s this crazy theatre, what are they doing there? Even the people in Egypt, they\u2019re like: Why do Palestinians keep talking about themselves, about their stories? If I hadn\u2019t gotten this price, I would be in deep trouble because I have no practical answers for the people. But this price is an answer for my family, for my community, for The Freedom Theatre, for the people watching me, for the people asking: what are you doing in the theatre? That\u2019s the answer.\u201d <\/span>Ahmed Tobasi<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018And Here I Am\u2019 has been on tour since it originally opened in the UK a few years ago. Since then, it has been performed all over the West Bank as well as on festivals and other occasions in Norway, Abu Dhabi, Zimbabwe, France, Egypt, the UAE, Slovenia and several other countries.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe play <\/span>is produced by Developing Artists, written by award winning Iraqi playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak, directed by Zoe Lafferty, and is currently in collaboration with The Freedom Theatre.\u00a0<\/span>
\nCongratulations to everyone involved in bringing this incredible story to life!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huge congratulations to Ahmed Tobasi on his win in April 2019 for the best monodrama at the Sharm El Sheikh International Theatre Festival For Youth for ‘And Here I Am\u2019! Based on Tobasi\u2019s own life story, the play also stands for a whole generation of Palestinians \u201cin search for freedom of the body, mind and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-theatre-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55250","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=55250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55250\/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=55250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}