Shakespeare enchants Palestinian refugees
Shakespeare enchants Palestinian refugees
Donald Macintyre sees The Tempest performed in Aida camp
Saturday, 10 September 2011
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The enjoyably chaotic atmosphere, said the director Jonathan Holmes just before the show started, was positively "Elizabethan".
True there were no mobile phones, a few of which trilled during the performance, in Shakespeare's time. But close your eyes and you could just about imagine that the children sucking ice lollies running up and down the steps of the Aida refugee camp's open-air auditorium, were behaving much as the Globe's younger groundlings would have done four centuries ago.
Given
this was a young Palestinian audience presented with a straight
Shakespearian text with only periodic Arabic synopses it was a tribute
to the British Jericho House theatre's cast that so many stayed until
the end.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/shakespeare-enchants-palestinian-refugees-2352239.html
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