Rehearsing Freedom

The Story of a Theatre in Palestine

Author by : Johanna Wallin

9789380118567

LeftWord Books 2017

Language: English

288 Pages

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About the Book

'What we are doing in the theatre is not trying to be a replacement or an alternative in the struggle for liberation, just the opposite......We're not healers. We're not good Christians. We are freedom fighters.' – Juliano Mer Khamis, Co-founder The freedom Theatre.


In 2006, a freedom fighter, an actor, a nurse, and a musician came together to set up a theatre in the midst of Jenin Refugee Camp in occupied Palestine. Called the Freedom Theatre, it was created at a time when the camp was still recovering from the devastating battle of Jenin unleashed by Israel during the second Intifada. A decade later, despite the assassination of one of its founders, despite numerous of its people being arrested, despite physical attacks, despite threats and harassment, The Freedom Theatre is today one of the most vital members of the Palestine cultural resistance movement for liberation and regeneration. In the process, The Freedom Theatre has earned a reputation internationally for its stylistically and politically path-breaking theatre and media productions.


This book presents, for the first time, the story of The Freedom Theatre in its own voice, through rare archival photographs and text. This volume is a precious record of multifarious challenges facing the cultural resistance in Palestine, and the ability of a group of determined people to undertake creation under occupation.

Johanna Wallin
Johanna Wallin is a writer, coordinator and communicator who joined The Freedom Theatre in 2008 as a resource developer. For the past six years she has managed The Freedom Theatre’s international communication, including website, social media, press releases, annual reports, publicity materials and publications. Wallin is also involved in strategic management and organisational development as a member of The Freedom Theatre’s executive committee. She has a degree of Bachelor of Arts in cultural anthropology from Uppsala University, Sweden. She has extensive experience within civil society organisations, among them the Swedish Development Forum and the Palestine Solidarity Association. She has published numerous articles and a book, I will never again walk alone – Palestine in the shadow of occupation (published in Swedish in 2009, Ruin Förlag), and is frequently engaged as a speaker at public seminars and events.

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