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What’s so funny about the Israeli occupation?
Firebrand comedian Mark Thomas and Palestinian actors Faisal Abualheja and Alaa Shehada are about to answer that question in Showtime from the Frontline. JOE GILL reports
Full of gags: Showtime From the Frontline
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CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
HAVE you heard the one about the two Palestinian actors and the British political comedian? You soon will.
Showtime From the Frontline is touring Britain from next week and, bringing this newly formed trio led by veteran troublemaker-in-chief Mark Thomas to a theatre near you, it has that unlikely subject for comedy, the Israeli occupation, in its sights.
The fact that it’s happening at all is something of a minor miracle, given the huge obstacles Faisal Abualheja and Alaa Shehada faced just getting out of the occupied West Bank to Britain.
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