Welcome to Gaza Play
Tue 19 Aug
|Ancoats
Experience 19 plays by children from Gaza and the West Bank, interwoven with real testimonies before and after October 7th. A powerful mix of imagination, celebration, and confrontation — theatre as witness. Tickets required.
Time & Location
19 Aug 2025, 18:00 – 23:00
Ancoats, 27 Great Ancoats St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5AJ, UK
About the event
Dancing, genies, animals, mother-in-laws and ghosts. Messages – phone calls, Zoom calls, voice notes – reporting a nightmare: bombed hospitals and schools, children lying like rubble in collapsing streets.
Welcome to Gaza is a 90-minute theatrical experience weaving together 19 plays written by children from Gaza and the West Bank before October 7th, 2023. Whimsical, imaginative, and vibrant, their stories are continually interrupted by real messages from genocide — audio, video, and written testimony portraying the shift in everyday life in Gaza before and after October 7th.
This is not just theatre — it's testimony, celebration and confrontation. It's memory and interruption.
Presented in solidarity. Held in community.
Comma Press will be joining us with a small book stall selling some of the diaries they have published by Gazan (with all proceeds to the Gazan writers and to Palestinian charities) and some fiction by Palestinian writers also. Alongside all that amazingness Hands…