The Royal Court Theatre in London have generously donated to us two tickets to ‘Fireworks’ (‘Al’ab Nariya’), a play by Dalia Taha and directed by Richard Twyman:
“In a Palestinian town eleven year-old Lubna and twelve year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege intensifies outside, fear for their safety becomes as crippling as the conflict itself.
Dalia Taha’s play gives us a new way of seeing how war fractures childhood.”
The play engages with some of the critical issues on which Medical Aid for Palestinians works, including the psychological impact of war on children. MAP’s own project in East Jerusalem, with the al-Saraya Centre for Community Services, provides counselling sessions and interactive theatre therapy to children living under the threat of imprisonment, house demolitions, and social and economic pressures and witnessing death or injury. Through this psychosocial support work, MAP helps children and their families to rebuild meaning, coherence and self-continuity and to relieve stress, while also addressing interpersonal, family, social and cultural issues.
The tickets are for the Monday 9th March performance at 7:45pm in the Royal Court Theatre’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. To be in with a chance to win these, all you need to do is answer this question:
Where is the al-Saraya Centre for Community Services with which MAP works?
Please send your answer to info@map-uk.org, with the subject line ‘Fireworks Competition’. The competition closes at noon on Friday 6th March, and our winner will be selected at random and notified by 4pm on Friday. Good luck!