Persona non grata

Director: Nabil Azar
Play writer: Sameh Al Kasim
Music by: Karem & Nabil

Decor: Ashraf hanna
Lighting: Nizar khamrah
Production: Aljawal Theatre

Acting: Hasan taha & Nibal Malshe

 

Nabil Azar, took the podium welcoming the audience and touching upon the basis and story of this play. It tells about a young Palestinian, from Gaza Strip, who met with the great poet Samih Al-Qasim at Stuttgart airport in Germany, and told him of how he became maltreated: "the occupation's intelligence chased after me, so I fled to the West Bank, where I was still persecuted. Therefore, I ran away to South Yemen and then to North Yemen, from there I took a plane to Sudan, where I was refused and sent away to another country, which refused me as well. I kept on flying from one airport to another and now I am waiting at Stuttgart airport to be received by any country  ... it's a tragic and absurd humanitarian situation, it expresses the lack of conscience and the irony of fate, revealing yet another form of the awful Palestinian suffering.  Normally, the atmosphere and the wide open space gives the notion of freedom, advance, creativity and exploration, but now this open space became a prison and a source of fear,