The Somali multimedia artist Ifrah Mansour, Minnesota-based Somali playwright and performer IN HER ONE WPOMEAN SHOW HOW TO HAVE FUN IN CIVIL WAR, revisitED her childhood memories during the 1991 Somali civil war to confront violent history with humor, and provide a voice for the global refugee stories of children. How to Have Fun in a Civil War, is a one-act multimedia play, which explores war from an idyllic viewpoint of a seven-year-old Somali refugee girl. The play weaves puppetry, poetry, videos and multiple oral stories taken from community interviews to tell a captivating story about resilience while pushing the audience to engage in a healing process that is still raw for survivors of the war. .. NOW talks about her life as a Somali Woman artist in the middle of Pandemic.
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MY CONVERSATION WITH PALESTINIAN DIRECTOR, AMIR ZUABI, Grey Rock
“Making theater shows in Palestine” — with a limited infrastructure and lack of state funding — “sometimes feels like building rockets,” he said. “But when they take off, it’s glorious.” The New York Times
Grey Rock tells the story of an ordinary Palestinian so enamored with the U.S. landing that he muses, “Shouldn’t Palestine, the land of prophets, also have a presence on the moon?” Guthrie
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MY CONVERSATION WITH LEBANESE ARTIST HANANE HAJJ ALI, JOGGING
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Hajj Ali is the recipient of the League of Professional Theatre Women’s 2020 Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award, which “aims to make a difference in the life and career of an international woman theater artist as she has made in the lives of her audiences and her culture.” Guthrie
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