This is the situation

Muriël Besemer, Rafat Al-Aydi, Linda Lugtenborg Baaddi, Abdelhadi Baaddi en Waël Quadrieh

This is the situation is an investigation. It is no ordinary performance, but an act of hope and connection. It is our answer to the question: how do you keep dreaming in a world that keeps trying to break you?

Location The Bookshop
Run time 90 minutes
Genre Theatre
Language Dutch and English

This is the situation

In this interactive event, you will follow a number of different stories exploring what it means to be together, or not be able to be together, or what being together is essential. In this piece, we will read and play Ruh al Ruh (soul of my soul) that Rafat Al Aydi wrote in a day and night during the war in Gaza this summer. We also use voice messages shared during the war. In an open setting, the audience is invited to watch, experience and think with us; How do you imagine a way towards each other?
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Muriël Besemer, Rafat Al-Aydi (Gaza), Linda Lugtenborg, Abdelhadi Baaddi and Waël Quadrieh are an occasional collective of Dutch and Palestinian theatre makers who seek to shape and tell stories about the war in Palestine and hardening Dutch society. In our work, we explicitly seek dialogue and connection through theatrical imagination and philosophical research.

Credits

directed by Muriël Besemer
text Ruh al Ruh by Rafat Al Aydi i.c.w. Mohammed Al Aydi
performance by Linda Lugtenborg Baaddi, Abdelhadi Baaddi
scenography Waël Quadrieh
dialogue and moderation Rafat Aydi, Muriël Besemer
direction Gaza Rafat Al Aydi
performance Gaza Ahmed Atef Rizq Al Banna, Elham Sabri Salim Abo Shanab
advice Aus Greidanus sr.
image Bone
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Ruh al Ruh is dedicated to 21-year-old Marwan Al Namruoti who died in a bombing in Gaza in August 2024.

Through this link you can make a contribution to Rafat Al Aydi's Theatre Company ‘Ayyam Al Masrah’ (theatre day) in Gaza so that they can continue their important work.

This project was made possible by a financial contribution from Amarte Fonds.

Thanks to Internationaal Theater Amsterdam for supporting this project.