During 2013, The Freedom Theatre will present several new productions, among them:<\/p>\n
…<\/span><\/p>\n THE ISLAND Opening on March 7 @ 3 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Brothers and Sisters of the Land. \u00a0I go now on my last journey. \u00a0I must leave the light of day forever, for the Island, strange and cold, to be lost between life and death. \u00a0So, to my grave, my everlasting prison, condemned alive to solitary death.<\/i><\/p>\n This South African apartheid-era drama, inspired by a true story, is set in a prison and revolves around two cellmates: one who is soon to be released while the other is serving a life sentence. They spend their days at mind-numbing physical labour and at night rehearse for a performance of Sophocles’ Antigon<\/i>e. Antigone, who defies the laws of the state to bury her brother, and her uncle who sentences her to die for her crime. Is Antigone guilty? Who decides? Under which law?<\/p>\n The Freedom Theatre\u2019s adaptation of The Island<\/i> reflects the experiences of Palestinian political prisoners and the abuses within the Israeli prison system. The play also highlights the parallels between apartheid South Africa and Palestine today. The separation, the denial of basic human and political rights, the discrimination and oppression that is evident in countless aspects of daily life.<\/p>\n The Island<\/i> is a testament to the importance of culture as a tool for resistance, and for humanity. Despite the prisoners\u2019 circumstances their souls are thirsty and art is the water that keeps them alive. In Palestine, as in apartheid South Africa, we need to keep ourselves alive.<\/p>\n Director, Artistic Director, Designer: Gary M. English<\/p>\n Cast:\u00a0Ahmad Rokh, Faisal Abo AlHeja<\/p>\n Performances: The Island\u00a0<\/em>will be performed at The Freedom Theatre in Jenin and also tour to Sweden, Brazil and USA. The production is supported by Sida and the Swedish Postcode Lottery.<\/p>\n …<\/span><\/p>\n …<\/span><\/p>\n PSYCHOSIS<\/strong> Psychosis<\/em>\u00a0revolves around collective depression, and the search for hope and freedom within a situation that has no hope nor freedom.<\/p>\n – In this play we are searching for the roots of this collective depression. Of course we\u2019re not going to solve it, but we will point at it, at least, says co-director Nabil Al-Raee.<\/p>\n Opening on April 4<\/strong> During 2013, The Freedom Theatre will present several new productions, among them: … THE ISLAND by\u00a0Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona Opening on March 7 @ 3 pm Brothers and Sisters of the Land. \u00a0I go now on my last journey. \u00a0I must leave the light of day forever, for the Island, strange and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","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=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/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=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>by\u00a0Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona<\/p>\n
\nMarch 7 @ 3 pm
\nMarch 9 @ 3 pm
\nMarch 10 @ 3 pm
\nMarch 11 @ 4 pm
\nMarch 12 @ 3 pm
\nMarch 13 @ 4 pm
\nSchool performances March 11 and 13
\n <\/p>\n
\nInspired by\u00a0the play 4.48 Psychosis by British playwright\u00a0Sarah Kane.<\/p>\n
\nDirectors:\u00a0Nabil Al-Raee and Zoe Lafferty<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"