Seatavern

Join us for a special performance of Shakespeare to Gaza, in association with MemOrients, followed by a panel discussion.

Shakespeare to Gaza is a humble artistic response to the genocide unfolding in Gaza.

In November 2023, the ASHTAR Theatre in Ramallah put out a global call to artists to perform the Gaza Monologues written by their artists under siege. A searing monologue by Ali entitled From Gaza to Shakespeare is a deep yearning call for Shakespeare to ‘get up’ and inspire the people of Gaza at this time of darkness and despair. This performance is a response to this monologue. Our voices and bodies weaving together Shakespearian works with the Gaza Monologues as a motif of liberation and resistance.’

Shakespeare to Gaza, is a form of protest theatre drawing on the motif of liberation and resistance.

This is a decolonial, Pan African response by South African activist artists to the unfolding genocide, weaving together key historical moments reflected in Shakespearean text and extracts of the Gaza Monologues, while harnessing our intertwined spirit of liberation resistance against injustice in solidarity with Palestine.

As international human rights instruments struggle to intervene on a genocidal avalanche of brutality and injustice against Palestinians – and our collective humanity – perhaps less spoken about is how cultural and academic institutions, heritage sites, museums, and archives of memory have been decimated, and how artists, curators and academics are targeted and killed daily.

All proceeds from tickets will go to Gift of the Givers.

For more information about the Memos Conference, click here: https://sites.google.com/view/memorientsconference.