{"id":57519,"date":"2026-01-28T20:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=57519"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:07:50","slug":"the-island-in-palestine-online-event-sept-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2026\/01\/the-island-in-palestine-online-event-sept-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Island in Palestine\u201d &#8230; An Online Event Featuring The Freedom Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>27 September 2020 | <\/strong>The Freedom Theatre (TFT) is pleased to invite audiences worldwide to <strong>\u201cThe Island in Palestine\u201d<\/strong>, an online event presented in cooperation with <strong>Globala Torget<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This special digital gathering offers an introduction to TFT as one of the most courageous cultural institutions in northern Palestine, a theatre that continues to create, train, and perform despite the daily realities of military occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Featuring: Ahmed Tobasi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event includes a conversation and presentation with <strong>Ahmed Tobasi<\/strong>, Artistic Director of The Freedom Theatre, sharing TFT\u2019s artistic vision, its community-rooted work in Jenin Refugee Camp, and the role of theatre as a form of <strong>cultural resistance<\/strong> and collective survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Screening: Excerpt from <em>The Island<\/em> (Arabic \/ English subtitles)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening concludes with an exclusive <strong>10-minute excerpt<\/strong> from TFT\u2019s acclaimed production of <strong>Athol Fugard\u2019s <em>The Island<\/em><\/strong>, performed in Arabic with English subtitles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Gary English<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Performed by:<\/strong> Faisal Abu Al-Hayjaa &amp; Ahmed Al-Rokh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Video maker:<\/strong> Mohammed Muawiyah<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Island<\/em> is a landmark work of political theatre that confronts imprisonment, injustice, and human dignity, themes that resonate deeply within the Palestinian experience and TFT\u2019s artistic language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <strong>More information \/ event details:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2420288011597455\">Facebook Event Page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2420288011597455\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 September 2020 | The Freedom Theatre (TFT) is pleased to invite audiences worldwide to \u201cThe Island in Palestine\u201d, an online event presented in cooperation with Globala Torget. This special digital gathering offers an introduction to TFT as one of the most courageous cultural institutions in northern Palestine, a theatre that continues to create, train, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":57520,"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-57519","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\/57519","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57521,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57519\/revisions\/57521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}