The Gaza Monologues
The Gaza Monologue is the German title of a play and a radio play based on it based on texts by young people from the Gaza Strip ; they were created in 2010 after the Gaza War in December 2008 and January 2009. The original French title is Les Mono-Logues de Gaza , the English The Gaza-Monologues .
The play
The idea for the play came from Ashtar , a non-governmental organization that conducts acting training in Ramallah , East Jerusalem and Gaza and continues to develop the Palestinian theater . As the young people there are not allowed to leave the Gaza Strip, on October 17, 2010, Ashtar's initiative , the play was premiered simultaneously in over 40 theaters on all continents , including with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAD) and the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in the Berlin Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz . Here 18 young people from various Berlin youth theater clubs took on the roles: they only had two weeks to rehearse; the local production came from the theater director Lydia Ziemke and the theater pedagogue Uta Plate.
On November 29, 2010, the piece was performed again by representatives of the various groups at the meeting of the UN Committee for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in New York .
radio play
The German production was done by Deutschlandradio Kultur , the original broadcast on January 16, 2012, editing and direction by Katrin Moll, the editing was with Barbara Gerland.
In January 2012 it was chosen as radio play of the month by the German Academy of Performing Arts .
speaker
Asma Zaher, Anna Popova, Sinan Akdeniz, Kelly Schlüter, Marie Popall, Nastassja Hahn, Mekan Günel, Anatol Aljinovic, Nils Berliner, Abed El Rahman, Janus Torp and others.
Web links
- The Gaza Mono-Logues ( Memento from July 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ aufbauhaus.de: Gaza Monologues (April 21, 2012)
- ↑ dw.de: The "Gaza Monologues" (April 21, 2012)
- ↑ schaubuehne.de: »The Gaza Monologues« ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (April 21, 2012)
- ↑ a b The Gaza Monologues , Radio Play and Feature: Free Play, dradio.de , January 16, 2012, accessed on January 21, 2013
- ↑ Radio Play of the Month / Year 2012 , German Academy of Performing Arts , accessed on January 21, 2013
- ↑ "The Gaza Monologues" is radio play of the month January 2012 , dradio.de , press release of February 3, 2012, accessed on January 21, 2013
