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Published: 19 February 2009

‘We don’t want words’

PREVIEW: GO TO GAZA, DRINK THE SEA
Theatro Technis

AFTER your ears stop ringing from the screams and explosions, the aspect of this play most likely to stay lodged in your brain is the shoes.
Piled high on stage, these symbols of Arab resistance look like rubble from bombed homes. Perhaps each represents a Palestinian killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Go to Gaza, Drink
the Sea – a haunting collaboration between the writer-director Justin Butcher and the Palestinian writer and choreographer Ahmed Masoud – promises to transport the audience directly to the Middle East to experience the horrors of the recent conflict first hand.
Personal testimonies from Gaza’s inhabitants are married with searing film images and a powerful, all-immersing sound scape.
In the midst of the suffering, however, shines a ray of hope. During a lull in the bombardment, one man appears on stage with his oud, a Middle Eastern instrument, and sings in Arabic: “We don’t want wars, we don’t want written words, we want peace.”
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