Over four days, Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine includes theatre, dance, comedy, food, storytelling, music and poetry, showcasing artists from both Palestine and its diaspora. A different line up every day.

THURSDAY 14TH AUGUST 12pm – 9pm

Day Pass: £60 / Individual Tickets: £15

All day tickets are available at EdFringe.com or you can buy show tickets on the door.

12noon (60 minutes) – Staged Reading
RUH AL RUH (THE SOUL OF MY SOUL)
Nafas Collective/Theatre Days production

Gaza-based playwright and director, Rafat Al Aydi, wrote the basic storyline of Ruh al Ruh in one day and one night last summer during the war in Gaza. The play is an ode to imagination and the ‘artist way of living’. Nafas Collective is an international theatre collective that initiates projects that deal with humanity in a hardening society worldwide. This play will be performed as a staged reading with local actors and director.

2pm (60 minutes) – Dance Double Bill
WITHIN THIS PARTY Amir Sabra (15 minutes)
CHÉ: (not) A Ballet Nur Garabli (35 minutes)

WITHIN THIS PARTY is a piece of Palestinian dance from the renowned dancer and choreographer Amir Sabra. Drawing on hip hop, dabkeh, and improvisation to search for the personal and the intimate within the collective, it continues Sabra’s exploration of that elusive and distinctive quality that can take familiar movements and gestures and transform them into something unique.

CHÉ: (not) a ballet

A dance for two artivists.

Rooted in Arab-Palestinian memory.

CHÉ: (not) a ballet moves through earth, energy, and gender, where the body carries what history tried to bury, and silence has a rhythm of its own. It echoes the struggles of women navigating layers of control: the weight of censorship, the grip of patriarchy, the relentless tension between survival and resistance – a force that shakes the chest, settles in the pelvis, and meets the earth with every stomp.

Through presence that is raw, physical, vocal and unfiltered, the work turns pain into protest and memory into motion, reclaiming space, rewriting identity, and embodying agency.

6pm (60 minutes) – Music
مراجيح MARAJEEH (SWINGS)
Amal Kaawash

A musical encounter where Amal Kaawash brings to life songs from the Palestinian tradition; as part of the wider heritage of Bilad El Sham, alongside her own original compositions, rooted in her experience as a Palestinian artist born in Lebanon to a family displaced from Palestine in 1948. Joined by the brilliant guitarist Joe Aouad, Amal weaves music and storytelling into a continuation of the collective narrative, where inherited memory and present-day expression meet.

8pm (75 minutes) – Theatre
AND HERE I AM
Artists on the Frontline

AND HERE I AM is a gripping coming-of-age story based on the life and performed by Palestinian artist Ahmed Tobasi. Set against the backdrop of the First and Second Intifada, we follow his epic journey from the battle-scarred alleys of Jenin Refugee Camp, to the confines of an Israeli prison. From an armed resistance fighter to an artist. From exile in Norway back to his homeland, where he continues to resist using culture.

Combining fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, award-winning writer Hassan Abdulrazzak captures an extraordinary odyssey of defiance, resilience, and the relentless pursuit of freedom.As the Israeli army once again invades Jenin Refugee Camp, And Here I Am is not just a tale from the past—it is an urgent story of the present.

Performed in Arabic with English surtitles.

Full programme details: https://www.fringepalestine.com/