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Returning Pretext
Owens, Allan Yamani, H.
Owens, Allan
Yamani, H.
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2017-01-26
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Adobe PDF, 165.77 KB
- Embargoed until 2217-12-31
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In the ‘Right to Return Pre-text’ we travel back in time to the year 1967 when Israel opened the border for the first time in 20 years to Palestinians who fled in 1948. Husband and wife Said and Sofia are arguing in their living room in Ramallah, Palestine about whether or not they should take this chance to visit the house for which they still have the key, but which Israelis would now surely be living in. Finally on a sweltering hot June day they set out in their old grey Fiat to make the journey to Haifa to face the un-faceable. Based on Ghassan Kanafani’s (1936-1972) novella ‘Returning to Haifa’ this pre-text explores the consequences of political and military occupation from a deeply human perspective. A series of questions are posed through three scenes that take participants from the known in to profoundly de-stabilising unknown territories.
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Owens, A. & Yamani, H. (2017). Returning Pretext Performances, January-December 2017.
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Pretext Interactive Performance toured between January -December 2017 staged in Storyhouse Chester UK; Bethlehem University ,West Bank Palestine;