Art and censorship - an artist's journey from prison to exile
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Birkbeck Central
Birkbeck's Honourary Research Fellow Hossam Madhoun discusses his work as the co-founder of Gaza’s Theatre for Everybody. Looking back on three decades of theatre making in Gaza and internationally, Madhoun considers the therepeutic potential of creative practice under the threat of occupation and censorship
The talk will be followed by a Q&A led by playwright and screenwriter Hannah Khalil. The event takes place in-person in the Conservatory at Birkbeck Central Building (WC1E 7HY).
The Michael Ross Playwriting Lecture is held in commemoration of Michael Ross, who died aged 40 in 2019, and is made possible through the sponsorship of his family. Michael was a playwright whose works include The Good Landlord (2019), The Shy Manifesto (2019), Work Makes You Free (2018), Blood Wedding (2017) and Happy to Help (2016), among many others. This year's lecture is also made possible with support from Shubbak - Europe's largest festival of contemporary Arab and SWANA arts, Battersea Arts Centre, and the Cambridge Drama and Performance Seminar.
Hossam Madhoun is the founder of Gaza's Theater for Everybody, which has a goal of producing dramatic productions appealing to a broad population. Due to the dire conditions in Gaza, productions are rare these days. Instead, he and his partner have dedicated their energies to drama and other types of therapy programs for traumatized children at a local nonprofit for which he is a project coordinator. Hossam is currently based in Cairo after having been displaced by the war. In his 31 years as a theatre maker, Hossam created more than 30 productions which have premiered both in Palestine and at leading theatre festivals internationally. He has translated 6 plays from Arabic to English and more recently his war diaries war performed in London as part of Az Theatre's Repair and Return series.
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