The freedom theatre: performing cultural resistance in Palestine
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 1542
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- LeftWord Books
- ISBN
- 9789380118673
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/23172/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book is the outcome of a process of producing two volumes in parallel: this collection of texts and a visual presentation of The Freedom Theatre’s first decade, Rehearsing Freedom: The Story of a Theatre in Palestine (LeftWord Books, 2017). The two publications sprung from the realization that the story of The Freedom Theatre had always been told by others, placing the privilege of interpretation with external authors. The impulse also emerged from a need to critically analyze the organisation’s work and the context in which it takes place as it approached its second decade. The outcome is a documentation of the work of The Freedom Theatre in its first ten years and a testament to its growing significance as a source of inspiration in Palestine and around the world. It is a documentation of and by the people who have contributed to making The Freedom Theatre what it is.
The book starts with Arna Mer Khamis’ groundwork with children in Jenin refugee camp, and ends with the organisation’s envisioned future. Three sections in between are thematically arranged. Instead of covering all events since the start in 2006, the aesthetic, educational and political aspects of The Freedom Theatre have been selected. Some chapters are academically written whilst others have been written or informed by contributors whose professional and personal testimonies relate more directly to particular practices, concepts, projects or events. Key voices from The Freedom Theatre are relayed through interviews while others have written their own chapters. The selection of authors is based on the volume’s thematic ‘through-line’. The result targets a number of readerships: scholars, intellectuals, theatre workers, and activists, who have prior knowledge of The Freedom Theatre and Palestine, and those who do not.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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