MONOLOGUE#22 | A Cup of Tea + The Horse of Jenin
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Alaa Shahada talks about artist life in Jenin, West Bank. We hear a radiomagic excerpt of his one-man show "The Horse of Jenin". He talks about his dreams for the future of Palestine and performs Gaza Monologue #22 Mahmud Abu Shaa’ban.
Alaa is a graduate of the Nobel prize nominated Freedom Theatre acting and the co-founder of the Palestine Comedy Club.
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| 0:00.0 | Minaine Falestine from Juni in Palestine. |
| 0:05.0 | Ahelan, welcome Ilkalp to the heart. |
| 0:09.0 | I am Al-ishan. Okay, I am Allah I'm Allah Okay. I am Allah. Okay. I am I am |
| 0:15.0 | Oh my God you were doing a joke already you're making a laugh? |
| 0:19.0 | I started the recording okay. |
| 0:21.0 | Hey hi, hi. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi, hi, hi. |
| 0:25.0 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:26.0 | How has it been since October 7th, how are you doing, right? |
| 0:29.0 | Okay? |
| 0:30.0 | Like, like psychologically in part of like, is it, it's a dumb question I know that but I have you lost anyone are you okay like |
| 0:40.3 | are you okay are you okay? How are you doing? |
| 0:53.0 | So, well, I come from a city called Janine and Janine is in the north of the West Bank. Is a place where the army is in the city every night. |
| 0:58.0 | They attack houses, they attack people, they arrest people, they kill people, they kill people even before October 7th. |
| 1:05.0 | But at least we were kind of adapting and living with it and try to be safe and |
| 1:11.0 | so I'm living it even before October 7th. |
| 1:14.0 | In October 7th I was in London performing and then I was stuck because the borders with |
| 1:20.0 | Jordan was closed and then after a while I went back to Janine and it was crazy how was |
| 1:26.1 | that like people are really in a real struggle where they have to adapt to |
| 1:30.8 | totally a new fucked up life. No work, no schools, no people coming to buy things, nothing is going on. There is no streets left, but what I appreciate is that even in those bad situations, |
| 1:49.0 | still people of Jeunene, do their days. They go to work if there is, they try to eat, they try to |
| 1:56.7 | find money to live, so this is the current situation. |
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