PALART FESTIVAL 2025
THEATRO TECHNIS | 26 MAY - 01 JUNE
APPLICATION 39 AHMED MASOUD
Application 39 is a black comedy play that imagines Gaza hosting the 2048 Summer Olympics. Two IT Department employees at the municipality of Gaza, submit an application to the International Olympic Committee as a joke.
They hack the website and copy the French application and just change the location. They win the bid as the committee decides that it is the best way to bring peace to the region. In 2040 Gaza is divided into smaller states, run by flying talking robots and underground tunnels are the only way to move through super speedy lifts.
The State of Gaza City, accepts the challenge of organising the games and starts building more tunnels in order to cater for various Sports. This upsets some of its neighbours, including other Palestinian states.
RETURN TO PALESTINE THE FREEDOM THEATRE
Return to Palestine centres around Jad, a Palestinian born in America, who goes to Palestine for the first time in his life. Wanting to know more about his people and identity, he finds out that reality is very different from what he has seen in the news.
Return to Palestine is directed by Micaela Miranda and devised together with the ensemble of Graduate actors from The Freedom Theatre School.
It was created after extensive story-gathering through playback theatre with the communities engaged in The Freedom Theatre’s annual Freedom Ride.
The play includes stories from Jenin refugee camp and city, Fasayel, Dheisheh refugee camp, Mufaqara and Jabalia Camp in Gaza.
In a sarcastic, comic and tragic style, the actors create the space, characters and even the emotional spaces they live in, with skilled play with their bodies in a very small stage – “as small as Palestine”.
PEACE DE RESISTANCE SAMI ABU WARDEH
RESISTANCE AS COMEDY – or is it comedy as resistance? The first one is in all caps so it must be that.
You can run from resistance but it will always catch up with you – as Sami finds out in Peace De Resistance: his second hour of comedy-theatre. Come and join his open call for mass civil disobedience, equitable distribution of hand puppets and more! Find out once and for all: can resistance actually be funny?
MANJAL TARWEEDEH COLLECTIVE - NABAD
A showcase of Palestinian culture through a mixture of Dabke dance infused with poetry
Indulge in Palestinian culture through music, dance and poetry. Tarweedeh and Nabad Troupe will take you on a journey across Palestinian stories through dance, poetry as spoken word, and both folk and modern music.
Dabke and poetry meet in this show bringing together folk and modern Palestinian music and poetry, infused with stories from the everyday life of Palestinians with themes of love, loss and resistance
With music by El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe, and Siwar Association for Culture and Arts