New photography exhibition
The Freedom Theatre presents Feelings, an exhibition prepared by our current photography students: Aseel Abu Baker, Mahdi Yaseen, Hamam Alsadi, Remas Saabneh and Nedal Jawabreh.
Film editing volunteers needed
We are looking for a film editor to help us out with a very interesting documentary film project. The person can join us in Jenin for a month or two, or work with us from abroad. The volunteership can start anytime after end of July until the end of the year. Free accommodation at our Guesthouse […]
A martyr in Jenin Refugee Camp
Jenin Refugee Camp is rallying around the bereaved family of Izzadeen Walid Beny Gharrah, in his early 20s, shot by a sniper in the early hours of this morning during an invasion of the refugee camp by Israeli occupation forces. Izzadeen is the latest of many hundreds of martyrs mourned by this community. May his […]
PAN launch event June 16
Welcome to attend the official launching event of the Palestinian Performing Arts Network (PAN) on Tuesday June 16th at 17:00-19:00 at the Al Bireh Municipality Cultural Centre. PAN is the outcome of four years of intensive collaboration between some of Palestine’s most experienced art managers, artists and organisations. The launching event, which will include performances […]
Summer activities at The Freedom Theatre
We start off the summer season at The Freedom Theatre with a theatre play, storytelling and a photo exhibition. After Ramadan we will organise summer camps in drama, photography and drawing. More to come soon! June 13&14: Storytelling performances Our Theatre School students invite the children of Jenin to two days of storytelling. The stories are […]
Courage, Ouda, Courage’ performed in Amsterdam
May 31st, ‘Courage, Ouda, Courage’ will be performed in Amsterdam! 20:30, at Theater Perdu, Kloverniersburgwal 86. Entrance 15€. Ouda, an old man, a refugee, slaves away for his tyrannical his boss, a hotel restaurant manager. Now, he stands beside the grave of his mother. While walking through the cemetery he meets a friend and visits […]
The Siege – uncomfortable, heartbreaking, brilliant!
The Siege has received exceptional reviews during the first part of its UK tour, which included a sold-out run at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. “One would struggle to find a more authentic piece of theatre, or indeed one that speaks to such a brutally urgent case of injustice” stated The Public Reviews, while […]
Launch of ‘Art and Community’ co-written by Micaela Miranda
‘Art and Community’ (original title Arte e Comunidade in Portuguese), a book co-written by The Freedom Theatre’s Micaela Miranda, will be launched in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 5th. In the book, Micaela Miranda talks about The Freedom Theatre’s work, the power of theatre in personal change and how change starts from the individual and from there […]
The Siege UK tour begins!
On May 13, The Freedom Theatre begins its first-ever tour of Britain with a performance of The Siege at The Lowry in Manchester. The Siege is an artistic reflection on a crucial event in recent Palestinian history, the Israeli army’s 39-day siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem during the height of the second Intifada. While the dramatic scenes of the […]
Shakespeare workshop at The Freedom Theatre
An important part of the training in The Freedom Theatre School is the discovery of Shakespeare. Currently our students are taking a workshop with British director Di Trevis, who has worked at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. The students learn about the Elizabethan court through its dances, study […]