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.
WEDNESDAY 13TH 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) – Panel Discussion
WE ARE NOT NUMBERS
Ahmed Alanouq
These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living.
2pm – Theatre
WELCOME TO GAZA
The Hands Up Project
Dancing, genies, animals, mother-in-laws and ghosts. Messages – phone calls, zoom calls, voice notes – reporting a nightmare of bombed hospitals and schools, children lying like rubble in the collapsing streets. Performed by some of their original creators, 19 plays by children from Gaza and the West Bank, written pre-October 7th 2023, are woven into a continuous 90-minute play, continually interrupted by messages from the genocide.
4pm (45 minutes) – Music
GAZELLEBAND
Gazelleband present the Palestinian story through music and storytelling, led by Gaza’s first female oud player, Reem Anbar. This duo set with writer and buzuq player Louis Brehony explores the shared musics of Palestine and its surrounding region, blended with tales of resistance from around the world.
6pm (60 minutes) – Theatre
KUFFIYEH: MADE IN CHINA
The play ‘Craving Mangoes’ is written by Palestinian playwright Dalia Taha (Royal Court). A mother and father avoid confirming the identity of a young, unidentified body, doing their best to narrate a version of events in which he is still alive. The play is a short two-hander, naturalistic style, set in the unknown and unfolding within a single timescale. A surreal psychological thriller with a story that resonates universally, it explores themes of loss, denial, and grief.
This will be performed alongside another episode of the collection, testimonies, and a poem of Mahmoud Darwish.
8pm (60 minutes) – Comedy / Storytelling
SAMI AL WARDEH
One hour of theatre and comedy, aimed at the fascistic tendencies of Western “civilisation”. Storytelling, joke-telling and physical comedy abound in this attack on the flimsy construct of nationalism and the tools of state oppression.
Full programme details: https://www.fringepalestine.com/