A Palestinian Play in NY: Blame the Wolf - Monday Night at 7pm
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"Perhaps the most extraordinary encounter of our trip [to Palestine, August 2002] took place in Alrowwad, when we spent a couple of hours talking with the kids... They were remarkable children, beautiful, serious, curious about us, angry about what they see as worldwide neglect of their people, astonishingly aware of the injustice of their situation but lacking anything that sounded like self-pity. They were, rather, unbelievably ambitious."
Performed by Alrowwad Palestinian Youth Theatre from Bethlehem
Monday July 27th @ 7pm - One Night Only!
Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
336 West 20th Street, New York City
Opening with a reading of Caryl Churchill’s
8-minute play
SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN: A Play for Gaza
featuring
Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning actress.
Kathleen Chalfant
$25, $10 students/seniors/low income (no one turned away)
Tickets can be reserved by email: NYCTheaterTour2009@gmail.com
A play for children and adults, performed by Palestinian youth from Aida Refugee Camp, Blame the Wolf is a sequel to Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf is arrested and all those who have struggled with him are invited to testify. The three little pigs are there, Hansel and Gretel, the goats… the trial begins. But as the story unfolds, we find out the goats are not so sure about their accusations against the wolf— it seems he actually saved Hansel and Gretel from the witch’s claws. As the trial continues we see stereotypes fill the court, even from the jury who has never heard of a “good” wolf. The wolf is “bad” by nature, surely he ate the grandmother. But why don't we allow the wolf to tell his own story?
posted by annie at 3:55 PM
"Perhaps the most extraordinary encounter of our trip [to Palestine, August 2002] took place in Alrowwad, when we spent a couple of hours talking with the kids... They were remarkable children, beautiful, serious, curious about us, angry about what they see as worldwide neglect of their people, astonishingly aware of the injustice of their situation but lacking anything that sounded like self-pity. They were, rather, unbelievably ambitious."-- Playwrights Tony Kushner, Naomi Wallace, Betty Shamieh,
Kia Corthron, Robert O'Hara and Lisa Schlesinger
American Theatre, July/August 2003
BLAME THE WOLF
Performed by Alrowwad Palestinian Youth Theatre from Bethlehem
Monday July 27th @ 7pm - One Night Only!
Atlantic Theater Company - Linda Gross Theater
336 West 20th Street, New York City
Opening with a reading of Caryl Churchill’s
8-minute play
SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN: A Play for Gaza
featuring
Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning actress.
Kathleen Chalfant
$25, $10 students/seniors/low income (no one turned away)
Tickets can be reserved by email: NYCTheaterTour2009@gmail.com
A play for children and adults, performed by Palestinian youth from Aida Refugee Camp, Blame the Wolf is a sequel to Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf is arrested and all those who have struggled with him are invited to testify. The three little pigs are there, Hansel and Gretel, the goats… the trial begins. But as the story unfolds, we find out the goats are not so sure about their accusations against the wolf— it seems he actually saved Hansel and Gretel from the witch’s claws. As the trial continues we see stereotypes fill the court, even from the jury who has never heard of a “good” wolf. The wolf is “bad” by nature, surely he ate the grandmother. But why don't we allow the wolf to tell his own story?
posted by annie at 3:55 PM
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