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The theatre has changed me... from a person without a dream, without hope, to a person with hope! A person who believes in impossible things... to believe that there is nothing impossible. This is the change; to have a discipline, begging to improve things. Without becoming discouraged. And theatre has helped me to understand myself. To know my feelings... not only feelings... my soul! -- IHAB ZAHDEH, Yes Theatre, Hebron We are a simple theatre, more mobile than fixed. Ninety percent of our performances are done on school playgrounds or on the street, next to the separation wall. We even work inside the Bedouin caravans. We work under the sun and under the rain. Here we mix theatre with awareness, with psychological support, with drama therapy. Some people will claim that we are not making theatre. Let us say, we are making the theatre of the simple people, the theatre of the oppressed people. This is a source of pride for us. -- ABDELMUGHNI AL-JABARI, Children's and Youth Dreams Society, Hebron Being a victim-thinking you are a victim and believing you are a victim--well, you area victim. You adapt a victim attitude in your life-how you relate to people, how you talk to them, and eventually it becomes a whole culture of people who are victims. So, | do not want to be a victim. | would never want you to come to see our theatre children, and for you to see misery in them. No. My aim is that you come and see children full of life, who are able to change their status quo-who are able to change the future. Because then we are feeding people-misery will not feed people's hope, will not feed people's creativity. -- RAMI KHADER, Diyar Academy for Children and Youth, Bethlehem

The theatre has changed me... from a person without a dream, without hope, to a person with hope! A person who believes in impossible things... to believe that there is nothing impossible. This is the change; to have a discipline, begging to improve things. Without becoming discouraged. And theatre has helped me to understand myself. To know my feelings... not only feelings... my soul! -- IHAB ZAHDEH, Yes Theatre, Hebron We are a simple theatre, more mobile than fixed. Ninety percent of our performances are done on school playgrounds or on the street, next to the separation wall. We even work inside the Bedouin caravans. We work under the sun and under the rain. Here we mix theatre with awareness, with psychological support, with drama therapy. Some people will claim that we are not making theatre. Let us say, we are making the theatre of the simple people, the theatre of the oppressed people. This is a source of pride for us. -- ABDELMUGHNI AL-JABARI, Children's and Youth Dreams Society, Hebron Being a victim-thinking you are a victim and believing you are a victim-—well, you area victim. You adapt a victim attitude in your life-how you relate to people, how you talk to them, and eventually it becomes a whole culture of people who are victims. So, | do not want to be a victim. | would never want you to come to see our theatre children, and for you to see misery in them. No. My aim is that you come and see children full of life, who are able to change their status quo—who are able to change the future. Because then we are feeding people-misery will not feed people's hope, will not feed people's creativity. -- RAMI KHADER, Diyar Academy for Children and Youth, Bethlehem

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Born in Boston in 1941 into a Jewish Ashkenazi family, Jonathan Daitch divided his professional career as a teacher first in the US, where he earned a doctorate in education, and then in France, where he has lived for the last 35 years. An avid amateur photographer since the age of 19, photography became a full-time activity when he retired in 2001. In 2007, at the invitation of the Alrowwad Cultural Centre in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, he spent two weeks there helping to set up a darkroom and giving photography classes. This led to working with both the Alrowwad and Yes theatre troupes on tours in France in 2011, 2012, and 2014. It was during the 2014 Yes Theatre tour that the idea for Acting Out: Voices from the Theater in Palestine was born and developed.

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