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Informationen zum Autor Philip Arditti is an actor, writer, theatre maker and voiceover artist from Istanbul, now based in London. He is trilingual and works in English, Turkish and French. He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first became known for his portrayal of Uday Hussein in House of Saddam on BBC/HBO. Philip also acted in Jasmine Naziha Jones's critically-acclaimed play Baghdaddy , on at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2022 and named as a Finalist for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Philip was part of the founding team of the Arcola Theatre and as of 2024, is currently on the steering committee of Mena Arts UK. Zhui Ning Chang (she/they) is a Malaysian editor, writer, educator, sensitivity reader, and theatre maker based in London, UK. Her work engages with topics such as decolonialisation, migration and diaspora, speculative futures, and building support and solidarity through storytelling. Klappentext A unique collection of plays that brings together stories of Jewish life from playwrights around the world . Curated and edited by an international theatre collective, these five plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of Jewish narratives across the globe: the haunting, the challenging, the joyful. From a legendary North African warrior queen to queer French avant-garde artists during World War II; from Israel-Palestine tensions made personal to protests in Istanbul amidst intergenerational trauma, this is a genre-spanning collection that probes at the heart of what it means to be Jewish - past, present, and future. Curated by Jewish-Lebanese Brazilian queer theatre maker, the plays were performed at London's Bush Theatre as part of Global Voices Theatre's popular live events. At a sensitive time for Jewish communities in the UK and beyond, the original event Global Jewish Voices aimed to engage the UK Jewish community and make space for nuanced conversations and representation. This collection of selected plays is a legacy of the event and opens up avenues for wider audiences to read and perform the works. Vorwort A unique anthology of plays that explores the diversity of the Jewish diaspora via subversive dramaturgies and instances of bold self-exploration. Zusammenfassung A unique collection of plays that brings together stories of Jewish life from playwrights around the world. Curated and edited by international theatre collective Global Voices Theatre, these five plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of Jewish narratives across the globe: the haunting, the challenging, the joyful. From a legendary North African warrior queen to queer French avant-garde artists during World War II; from Israel-Palestine tensions made personal to protests in Istanbul amidst intergenerational trauma, this is a genre-spanning collection that probes at the heart of what it means to be Jewish - past, present, and future. Curated by Jewish-Lebanese Brazilian queer theatre maker Victor Esses, the plays were performed at London's Bush Theatre as part of Global Voices Theatre's popular live events. At a sensitive time for Jewish communities in the UK and beyond, the original event Global Jewish Voices aimed to engage the UK Jewish community and make space for nuanced conversations and representation. This collection of selected plays is a legacy of the event and opens up avenues for wider audiences to read and perform the works. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPreface by Victor Esses Extinct - Philip Arditti (Turkey/UK) Heartlines - Sarah Waisvisz (Canada) La Kahena, the Berber Queen - Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker (Algeria), translated from French by Jessica Benhamou Papa'gina - Hana Vazana Grunwald (Israel), translated from Hebrew by Sivan Battat A People - L M Feldman (US) Bibliography of Influential and Ins...
