2011 Photography Workshops!
The Multimedia Department held its first photographic workshop yesterday with a group of four very enthusiastic young women.The workshops will be held several times a week at the theatre. The students are learning how the camera works, how to compose images, how to tell stories through the lens, and how to use photography as a […]
Juliano Mer Khamis In The Drama Review
Check out this article published in The Drama Review, a prestigious theatre journal published out of New York University. (click the link below to view the PDF) Mer Khamis TDR Comment Mee et al
Playback Theatre
The Freedom Theatre is currently developing an ongoing Playback Theatre* initiative led by applied theatre specialist Ben Rivers and his assistant Christine Baniewicz. The project involves the formation of several troupes and will include 18 months of training and rehearsals together with numerous performances and workshops throughout the West Bank of occupied Palestine. The Playback […]
Songs for Freedomأغاني الحرية
October 30, 2011 7 pm (doors open at 6:30) at Joe’s Pub Tickets: $100 (to benefit The Freedom Theatre) Hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner Directed by Jo Bonney Special Guest Performances by Academy Award-winner David Byrne, Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks, Grammy-winners Aimee Mann& Angelique Kidjo, TV & Broadway star Audra McDonald, Palestinian hip-hop group DAM, as well as a performance by The Freedom […]
The 3rd year Graduating Students in NY!
Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre and the Peace and Justice Task Force of All Souls presents THE JENIN FREEDOM THEATRE in NYC! Featuring students and staff of the Freedom Theatre ALL SOULS UNITARIAN CHURCH 1157 Lexington Avenue (80th St. and Lexington Avenue) OCTOBER 27, 7 PM-9 PM a public welcome to students and staff from Jenin, most […]
The Freedom Theatre Performs in New York!
Join us at the Miller Theater, Columbia University, 116th and Broadway at 7pm on 18 October 2011 While Waiting, inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, is the final production by our third year Acting School students. The production serves as an allegory to the relationship between the students of The Freedom […]
Open Letter to the Israeli Security Apparatus
This is an open letter from representatives of the international volunteers and staff members, the friends, supporters and foundation of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin to the Israeli security apparatus including the Shabak, the Israeli army and Israeli police. After the attack on The Freedom Theatre’s office and multimedia centre, during which you arrested our head technician Adnan Naghnaghiye and Bilal Saadi, the […]
The Freedom Theatre Acting School Presents ‘While Waiting’
While Waiting Performed by the Graduate Students of The Freedom Theatre Directed by Udi Aloni Waiting for Godot is one of the most important and challenging works of modernism. When two despairing clowns, who believe even death by suicide is not sufficient, meet an odd master-slave couple in a nowhere place, a miracle happens, and a […]
Crime and Punishmentالجريمة والعقاب
An appeal for moral and financial support following a new wave of harassments against The Freedom Theatre by the Israeli army The Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp was attacked by the Israeli army on the 27th July. Two of its members, Adnan Naghnaghiye and Bilal Saadi were taken. On the 22nd of August […]
The Freedom Theatre Targeted Again
After the Israeli army targeted the theatre twice during the last month, arresting three of its members, today at approximately 02:00 in the morning of the 22nd August the Israeli army again surrounded The Freedom Theatre and the Nagnaghiya family home. Jacob Gough, the Acting General Manager at The Freedom Theatre left the office at […]