In collaboration with Pusat Kreatif Kanak-kanak Tuanku Bainun, Kuala Lumpur, this award-winning script by Samah Sabawi will be staged by PKK Tuanku Bainun from 13th to 18th January 2017. The play will be staged at PKK Tuanku Bainun’s Theatre KuAsh.
PKK Tuanku Bainun is a non-profit organization serving as a safe haven for children and youth from all walks of life to develop their creativity. Centred around the pillars of arts, heritage, culture, and the environment, our classes are made available at full sponsorship or subsidy to the underprivileged. We are proud to present this gripping story, with its stirring universal themes of resilience and the human spirit, in our KuAsh Theatre @ PKK Tuanku Bainun.com
Jomana, a Palestinian woman living in a Gaza refugee camp, falls in love with Rami, an American-born Palestinian doctor and activist who has just arrived on one of the first Free Gaza boats in 2008. Their love is met with relentless string of challenges. Ultimately, Rami must decide between returning to his comfortable life in Texas and staying in Palestine with Jomana. Choosing to stay means leaving his family and career behind for a life ravaged by war, while leaving means not only losing Jomana but also ignoring the plight of the Palestinians.
The play premiered simultaneously at Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre and Palestine’s Al Rowwad’s in 2014. Its sold-out premiere was met with standing ovations and critical acclaim. In 2016 the play was selected for the Victorian Certificate of Education Drama Playlist, and was remounted in Melbourne for a longer also sold-out season at La Mama, before it embarked on its first national tour, playing to full houses and standing ovations in Adelaide’s Bakehouse Theatre and Sydney’s Casula Arts Centre.
Date : Saturday, 14 January 2017 – Sunday, 15 January 2017
Time : 8:30pm (14 Jan) / 3:00pm (15 Jan)
Venue : KuAsh Theatre, Pusat Kreatif Kanak-Kanak Tuanku Bainun
Tales of a City by the Sea 