Playback workshop in Amman
9th – 13th March 2014; 10am – 4:30pm each day PLAYBACK THEATRE is an interactive theatre approach used in over 60 countries as a tool for community building and cultural activism. In a Playback event, audience members share personal stories, and watch as a team of actors and musicians transform these accounts into improvised theatre […]
UK tour launch
In 2015 The Freedom Theatre will tour Britain for the first time. To launch this tour our UK Friends will have a screening of Arna’s Children as well as a Q&A about The Freedom Theatre and Juliano Mer Khamis’ work. The event will take place on March 2 at 5:30 pm, at the Courthouse Hotel London, 19-21 […]
The Freedom Films
We proudly present five brand new short films, fiction and documentary, made by our talented crew of aspiring filmmakers. Their common aim has been to record the humanity and the truth of the Palestinian situation. The Freedom Films will be launched at an event on the 26th of February at 15:00 at Cinema Jenin in […]
Photography workshops
In January The Freedom Theatre launched a new photography course, with 12 children from Jenin camp and its surroundings. The workshops are part of a unique project that the theatre is running with support from the Swedish Postcode Lottery, aimed at strengthening the theatre’s ability to strengthen the child perspective in all its work – […]
Magic Note – the success continues!
After a week of wonderful performances to absolutely packed houses, we can say with confidence that Magic Note has been a tremendous success, beyond anything we could have hoped for. Magic Note is such a joyous play, full of music, dance, humour and happy colours, yet it carries many profound messages for children and adults alike. It […]
Join the March Freedom Ride!
Stand on the right side of history. Join the 2014 March Freedom Ride and add your voice to the global campaign to end Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. For more information, or to register, please email: freedombus@thefreedomtheatre.org The Freedom Bus, an initiative of The Freedom Theatre, uses interactive theatre and cultural activism to bear witness, raise […]
Magic Note opens today!
Music City is a beautiful place where everyone spends their days playing music and dancing. Each year the King organizes a big music festival, inviting musicians from all over the world to perform. But this year things starts to go wrong: the people who have spent all their life dancing and playing music have not […]
Cleaning Jenin Camp
Residents of Jenin refugee camp cleaned the streets on Saturday morning. Students, staff and board members from The Freedom Theatre participated in this day of action, organized by a new camp committee dealing with camp issues. We hope this day was the first of many to come!
Eyad Hourani’s “Omar” nominated for Oscar
Eyad Hourani, graduate of our Theatre School, will be going to the Oscars this year! Eyad stars in the film Omar, nominated for best foreign language film. Alf mabrouk Eyad and the whole Omar team! Omar is a powerful political thriller interwoven with a tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is directed by Hany Abu-Assad, known […]
Magic Note – it’s time to book your seat!
It is said that in the eyes of a child, there are no seven wonders of the world; there are seven million. On that magical note, isn’t it fabulous that you can make stars sparkle in a child’s eyes by booking seats to our upcoming theatre show! Magic Note, our very first professional play for children, opens […]