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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Tales of a City by the Sea
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'Gaza 2008: A Palestinian journalist writes poetry on the beach. A doctor must decide to stay or leave. Then come the missiles and the phosphorus showers.

This is the furious and tender exploration of the fragility of freedom. The national collides with the personal as activism and reporting take to the stage. Tales of a City by the Sea uses poetry, tenderness and humour to explore the love between those who have choices, and those who do not. Language fails us when it comes to displacement and grief; yet Samah Sabawi's language cracks grief open and remains present, like the sea' (publication blurb).


'A Palestinian story of love, separation and beautiful resistance.

Are your loved ones trapped behind the wall

Do they need the army’s permission

For their prayers to reach the sky

For their love to cross the ocean

And touch your thirsty heart

Are your loved ones trapped' (production blurb)

Notes

  • Includes glossary of Arabic words and terms.

Production Details

  • 2014: La Mama Courthouse, St Kilda, Melbourne: 12-23 November

    • Director Lech Mackiewicz; Producer La Mama Theatre; Assistant Director Izabella Mackiewicz; Set designer Lara Week; Lighting designer Shane Grant; Sound designer Khaled Sabsabi; Stage Manager James O’Donoghue; Assistant Stage Manager: Nada Mustapha.
    • Cast: Nicole Chamon (Jomana), Osamah Sami (Rami), Emily Coupe (Lama), Majid Shokor (Abu Ahmed), Wahibe Moussa (Samira), Reece Vella (Ali), Aseel Tayeh (Singer), Ubaldino Mantelli (Mohanad/Homeland Security/Father in hospital) and Cara Whitehouse (Mother in hospital/Nurse)

    2014: Aida Refugee Camp, Palestine; 22 November

    • Director Abdelfattah Abusrour; Producer Alrowwad Cultural and Theatre Society; Set Designers Issa Ismael, Mahmoud Dyab and Issa Nour; Lighting/Sound Ahmed Ajarmah
    • Cast: Amira Abusrour (Jomana), Ribal Alkurdi (Rami) Marwa Romy (Lama) Issa Mustapha (Ali/Homeland Security), Mohamad Shalan (Abu Ahmed), Hala Al-Yamani (Samira/Um Ahmed (voiceover); Issa Nour (Mohanad/Homeland Security)

    2016: Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney seasons, beginning May 2016

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2014
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Double Exposure : Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas Samah Sabawi (editor), Stephen Orlov (editor), Canada : Playwrights Canada Press , 2016 14044280 2016 anthology drama

    Volume of seven plays—three by Jewish playwrights, three by Palestinian playwrights, and a collaboration by both.

    Canada : Playwrights Canada Press , 2016
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2016 .
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      • Theatre program at end of the text.

        Includes glossary of Arabic words and terms.

Works about this Work

Love in Gaza is Stripped Bare Matt Byrne , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 5 June 2016; (p. 85)

— Review of Tales of a City by the Sea Samah Sabawi , 2014 single work drama
Life Amid War in Focus Louise Nunn , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 May 2016; (p. 17)

— Review of Tales of a City by the Sea Samah Sabawi , 2014 single work drama
School Drama a Love Story, Not Anti-Israel Propaganda, Says Playwright Jennine Khalik , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 10 May 2016; (p. 3)
Love Story Plays Out under Gaza Conflict Annabel Ross , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 October 2014; (p. 50)

— Review of Tales of a City by the Sea Samah Sabawi , 2014 single work drama
Love Story Plays Out under Gaza Conflict Annabel Ross , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 October 2014; (p. 50)

— Review of Tales of a City by the Sea Samah Sabawi , 2014 single work drama
Life Amid War in Focus Louise Nunn , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 May 2016; (p. 17)

— Review of Tales of a City by the Sea Samah Sabawi , 2014 single work drama
Love in Gaza is Stripped Bare Matt Byrne , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 5 June 2016; (p. 85)

— Review of Tales of a City by the Sea Samah Sabawi , 2014 single work drama
School Drama a Love Story, Not Anti-Israel Propaganda, Says Playwright Jennine Khalik , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 10 May 2016; (p. 3)
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