Aweeha
Aaweeha
A production of: Asseera Theatre
Written and directed by:Radi Shehadeh
Actors: Radi Shehadeh & Nidal Badarneh
Music: Bishara Khill
Costumes: Muneera Shehadeh
What is our story about?
“Meelad” is a Moslem from “D’haisheh” refugee camp in the West Bank, and “Meeladeh” is a Christian from Galilee. They met in Jerusalem while they were attending a puppet festival in Al-Hakawati Theatre. They were fascinated by puppets but also they fell in love with each other. They got married and they became puppeteers.
While touring with their puppet shows, they were extremely satisfied that they bring happiness to the children, but Meeladeh who appeared to be barren started to be haunted by the idea that all the children of the world are hers, and that she is able to deliver a lot of babies, that were grown up and became scattered allover the world.
She and her husband inspire an idea of making a big party, and they invite their audience to attend it, but they are waiting for the many musical groups that will come to share the event with them. They start rehearsing for the coming to be party.
Since they became very famous puppeteers, they decide to tell their stories using their celebrity names:”Abu Shanab” and “Imm Shanab”. In fact they had to change their real life details into performing artistic stories, which makes the game more imaginative and creative. They decide to hide themselves behind their neck names masks, and this makes them more open, courageous and frank, especially that they had to express their conflict with part of their society, which can not easily accept, politically, sociologically and religiously the idea of marriage between a Moslem and a Christian on the one hand, and between a Palestinian living in Israel and another living in the occupied territories on the other hand.
We slowly learn that all the non-stop babies coming out of Meeladeh’s womb are merely puppets, and that she practices this game with her husband in order to compensate themselves. The audience and the party appear to be part of their imaginative absurd story which helps them to get rid of their solitude.
A production of: Asseera Theatre
Written and directed by:Radi Shehadeh
Actors: Radi Shehadeh & Nidal Badarneh
Music: Bishara Khill
Costumes: Muneera Shehadeh
What is our story about?
“Meelad” is a Moslem from “D’haisheh” refugee camp in the West Bank, and “Meeladeh” is a Christian from Galilee. They met in Jerusalem while they were attending a puppet festival in Al-Hakawati Theatre. They were fascinated by puppets but also they fell in love with each other. They got married and they became puppeteers.
While touring with their puppet shows, they were extremely satisfied that they bring happiness to the children, but Meeladeh who appeared to be barren started to be haunted by the idea that all the children of the world are hers, and that she is able to deliver a lot of babies, that were grown up and became scattered allover the world.
She and her husband inspire an idea of making a big party, and they invite their audience to attend it, but they are waiting for the many musical groups that will come to share the event with them. They start rehearsing for the coming to be party.
Since they became very famous puppeteers, they decide to tell their stories using their celebrity names:”Abu Shanab” and “Imm Shanab”. In fact they had to change their real life details into performing artistic stories, which makes the game more imaginative and creative. They decide to hide themselves behind their neck names masks, and this makes them more open, courageous and frank, especially that they had to express their conflict with part of their society, which can not easily accept, politically, sociologically and religiously the idea of marriage between a Moslem and a Christian on the one hand, and between a Palestinian living in Israel and another living in the occupied territories on the other hand.
We slowly learn that all the non-stop babies coming out of Meeladeh’s womb are merely puppets, and that she practices this game with her husband in order to compensate themselves. The audience and the party appear to be part of their imaginative absurd story which helps them to get rid of their solitude.
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Asseera Theatre, Radi D. Shehadeh, P.O.Box 182, Maghar Village, Code 20128 , Galilee,Telefax: 972 (4) 678-2125 email: [email protected]
