THE LUTHIER
by Lucy Caldwell
Wednesday 8th July @ 1.00pm
Admission Free, donations welcome
The Luthier centres around a young apprentice – Luthier – a violin repairman in Ramallah. His name is Dawood Al-Suleiman and his story reveals, as he repairs a violin, a memory from ten years previously when he was aged nine. His friend Yusuf found what he thought was a porn video. When a gang of boys discovered, after much anticipation, that it was not the case, they chased Yusuf into the street:
“White phosphorus ignites in the air and when it comes in contact with the skin it burns to the bone and beyond. It burns at 816˚ Celsius or 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit until the oxygen supply is cut off or there is nothing left to burn. You can stand on the other side of the street and watch your mother and your sister and your baby brothers melt and turn to smoke before your eyes and there is nothing you can do, nothing”.
Lucy Caldwell is an award-winning writer, and winner of the Rooney Prize for Literature 2012.
The Show is Directed by Davy Kelleher and Performed by Rob Malone
There well be a post-show discussion about the issue of cultural boycott of Israel with invited speakers.
BITTERENDERS
by Hannah Khalil
Thursday 9th July @ 1.00pm
Admission Free, donations welcome
London-based Irish-Palestinian writer Hannah Khalil’s play, Bitterenders, a black comedy about a Palestinian family in Jerusalem who are forced to share their house with Israeli settlers, won the Sandpit Arts’ Bulbul 2013 competition and was staged at The Nightingale Theatre in Brighton. A compelling mixture of Beckett-meets-McDonagh set in Jerusalem under the Israeli occupation regime.
Directed by Jeda De Bri, Performed by Áine Ní Mhuirí (Ballykissangel), Michael Bates (Fair City), Hannah Mamalis and Anne Byrne.
THE OLIVE TREE
by Katie O’Kelly
Friday 10th July @ 1.00 pm
Admission Free, donations welcome
‘She’s speaking to me. The olive tree….’
It’s 2014, and the fourth Israeli bombardment in ten years has begun in Gaza. A naïve but well-meaning BDS supporter refuses to buy Israeli goods in Dublin. And the Palestinian olive tree of history comes to life before her…
A lyrical sprint from the fluorescent lights of Clontarf’s Spar to the dusty rubble of Gaza, The Olive Tree is a reaction to the helplessness felt by many watching the attacks last year on our TV screens. A short theatre performance written and performed by Katie O’Kelly and underscored with music by the wonderful Imogen Gunner, it will be followed by a post-show talk on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
