wo 27 november 2024
Theater – Troupe Courage | Alaa Shehada
The Horse of Jenin
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Ever since October 2023, the life of Troupe Courage performer Alaa Shehada (Jenin, Palestina) has been wholly upturned. Alaa is in the Netherlands right now, and it's more urgent than ever that he tells his story. The performance is an ode to the power of imagination and the value of playing freely. Both physical theatre, a personal story about living in Palestine and a celebration of imagination.
About The Horse of Jenin
In April 2002, a major invasion took place in Jenin. In the aftermath, a German artist came over for an art workshop. After four weeks, with the help of 15 Palestinians, he unveiled the result: a horse as tall as 5 metres built from metal fragments and debris from the bombings. They rode the horse through the city and everyone was proud of it, people felt lifted by it.
The horse is an Arabic symbol of freedom, but this horse was also a symbol of peaceful resistance, of resilience. Last November 2023, an Israeli bulldozer entered the camp and the horse was removed.
In this solo, Alaa wonders: what happened to the horse? Was it arrested? Did it go to court ? Was he able to defend himself? Did they put him in jail?
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NRC“Een zwartkomisch portret van een leven onder de Israëlische bezetting”
About Troupe Courage
Troupe Courage (formerly Theatre Hotel Courage) is an international acting collective that produces performances and conducts workshops worldwide. They create theater using archetypal masks to play characters from all walks of life, such as the old woman, the dictator, the playing child and the refugee. In a completely empty space with live music, the actors manage to enchant the audience with their transformations and bring collected stories to life in the imagination of the viewer.
About Alaa Shehada
Alaa Shehada (born 1991) is an actor and comedian from Jenin (West Bank). In 2014, he graduated from The Freedom Theatre. When Troupe Courage gave a workshop there in 2011, he immediately became a regular actor of the collective.
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