Freedom Theater play takes new look at Nativity Church siege

posted on: Apr 20, 2015

In a small alley hidden among the hardscrabble streets of Jenin refugee camp, memories of the bloody Israeli siege of Palestine’s most famous church are being revived.

Unlike most memorials, however, this commemoration includes neither a march nor a statue.

Instead, the attack on the Church of the Nativity in 2002 is being recounted in theatrical form, and the voices of the Palestinian fighters as well as the priests involved are being brought to the fore exactly 13 years later.

The play “The Siege” is a production of the Freedom Theater, one of Palestine’s most famous theater groups and a long time proponent of resistance against occupation through art.

With their latest work — which has toured the West Bank since its April 4 opening and is slated to reach the United Kingdom in the coming weeks — they hope to retell a story that once gripped the global public but which the directors say has been little understood until now.

Source: www.maannews.com