Tales of a City By The Sea

Fiction & Literature, Drama
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Author: Sabawi, Samah ISBN: 9781925359756
Publisher: Currency Press Publication: May 4, 2016
Imprint: Currency Press Language: English
Author: Sabawi, Samah
ISBN: 9781925359756
Publisher: Currency Press
Publication: May 4, 2016
Imprint: Currency Press
Language: English

*‘If only our bodies were bulletproof
If only our boats were made of steel
If only our dreams were real.’

Gaza, 2008. A Palestinian journalist writes poetry on the beach. A doctor must decide to stay or leave. Then come the missiles and the phosphorus showers.

This is a furious and tender exploration of the fragility of freedom. The national collides with the personal as activism and reporting take to the stage. Tales of a City by the Sea uses poetry, tenderness and humour to explore the love between those who have choices, and those who do not. Language fails us when it comes to displacement and grief; yet Samah Sabawi’s language cracks grief open and remains present, like the sea.

Tales of a City by the Sea was staged twice in 2014: at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne and at the Aida refugee camp in Palestine.*

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*‘If only our bodies were bulletproof
If only our boats were made of steel
If only our dreams were real.’

Gaza, 2008. A Palestinian journalist writes poetry on the beach. A doctor must decide to stay or leave. Then come the missiles and the phosphorus showers.

This is a furious and tender exploration of the fragility of freedom. The national collides with the personal as activism and reporting take to the stage. Tales of a City by the Sea uses poetry, tenderness and humour to explore the love between those who have choices, and those who do not. Language fails us when it comes to displacement and grief; yet Samah Sabawi’s language cracks grief open and remains present, like the sea.

Tales of a City by the Sea was staged twice in 2014: at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne and at the Aida refugee camp in Palestine.*

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