Monday 18 - Saturday 23 November 2019, 7.30PM
The Coronet Theatre
103 Notting Hill Gate
London W11 3LB
A Letter to a Friend in Gaza is Amos Gitai’s elegiac and moving address to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, told through the perspectives of those living it.
Four actors - two Palestinian and two Israeli – seated at a long table, read each other poems, writings and letters by Palestinian and Israeli writers and thinkers such as Mahmoud Darwish, S. Yizhar and Emile Habibi, against a backdrop of news and archive footage and feeds from the on stage cameras, interwoven with a soundtrack from live musicians.
It will also include a reading of the poem 'Some People' by Wisława Szymborska.
A performance about reconciliation, dialogue, and humankind, its seemingly spartan format is more than a sum of its parts. At times poetic and at others abrasive, Gitai’s poignant tone is sure to leave its mark.