april, 2018

thu05apr8:00 pm10:00 pmShowtime from the Frontline8:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Gulbenkian, University of Kent Canterbury Kent CT2 7NBBook Tickets

Time

(Thursday) 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location

The Gulbenkian

University of Kent Canterbury Kent CT2 7NB

Event Details

Showtime from the Frontline
By Mark Thomas, Faisal Abu Alhayjaa and Alaa Shehada

Directed by Joe Douglas

Name the comedian who might say ‘I wonder if I can set up a comedy club… in a refugee camp… in Palestine?’ Of course, it’s Mark Thomas. And that is exactly what he tries to do.

Dodging cultural and literal bullets, Israeli incursions and religion, Mark and his team set out to run a comedy club and put on two nights in the Palestinian city of Jenin. Only to find that it is not so simple to celebrate freedom of speech in a place with so little freedom.

Jenin refugee camp, a stronghold for the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade during the Second Intifada, is not a place synonymous with laughs. But it is also home to the Jenin Freedom Theatre and to people with a wealth of stories to tell.

Mark tells this story alongside Faisal Abu Alhayjaa and Alaa Shehada, two performers, actors and now aspiring comics from the Jenin Club. This is a story about being yourself in a place that wants to put you in a box. Funny, moving and necessary. Mark says, it’s the nearest he will ever get to Alan Parker’s ‘Fame’.

 

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