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Returning to Haifa (Paperback, Main)
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Returning to Haifa (Paperback, Main)
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You haven't asked, but yes, you both may stay in our house for the
time being. And use our things. I figure it'll take a war to settle
it all. A compelling story of two families - one Palestinian, one
Israeli - forced by history into an intimacy they didn't choose. In
1948, Palestinian couple Said and Safiyya fled their home during
the Nakba. Now, in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War, the
borders are open for the first time in twenty years, and they dare
to return to their home in Haifa. They are ready to find someone
else living where they once did, but nothing can prepare them for
the encounter they both desire and dread with the son they had to
leave behind. Ghassan Kanafani's classic novella Returning to Haifa
has been adapted for the stage by Naomi Wallace and Ismail Khalidi.
The play premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in February
2018 to coincide with the seventieth anniversaries of both the
Nakba or 'catastrophe' - the mass dispossession of the Palestinians
in 1948 - and the foundation of the State of Israel. '[Returning to
Haifa] offers a moving confrontation between two sets of displaced
people and an utterly unsentimental exploration of the complexities
of home, history and parenthood... its call for reciprocal
awareness and acknowledgement of past injustice seems more
necessary than ever.' Guardian '...As quietly shattering as it is
gently complex.' WhatsOnStage 'The adaptation demonstrates the
control power and pain exert over individual lives.' Upcoming 'An
electrifying eighty minutes of theatre...The beauty of the writing
lies in the amalgam of the political and the personal; the
connection between individual and global struggles.' Spy In The
Stalls 'Kanafani's parable of this contested land is even-handed
enough to explore the agony of both the exiled Palestinian couple
and the Jewish widow...and to empathize with all of them.' Jewish
Renaissance 'Returning to Haifa is a beautiful and important play
portraying the personal tragedies created because of much bigger
acts between humans.' Exeunt Magazine
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