Tomorrow Will Be a Palestinian Day review – work that finds a way out of Gaza’s ruins
Theatre503, London
Hope still resides against horror in this collection of short plays from Palestinian playwrights, poets and artists
What are the basic requirements of theatre-making? Actors, writers, resource and rehearsal space, to name a few. What happens when these factors are narrowed to their most dangerous extremities? Companies like Belarus Free Theatre and the Freedom Theatre have shown that theatre does not stop its production even as bombs and bullets assail the building. The work finds its way to an audience.
This is certainly the case with this collection of nine short plays written by Palestinian playwrights, poets and artists, and directed by Ahmed Masoud and Micaela Miranda. Four writers are currently in Gaza while two are former political prisoners, including Walid Daqqa, one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners, who died in custody in 2024. An extract from The Martyrs Return to Ramallah (translated by Julia Choucair Vizoso) is both absurdist and haunting, featuring the dead bodies of prisoners stored in Israeli prisons and denied burials, who begin to talk to each other.
At Theatre 503, London, until 6 June
المصدر: The Guardian — Stage