(29 Oct 2024)
PAKISTAN PALESTINIAN THEATER
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Karachi, Pakistan – 25 October 2024
1. Various of actor Ahmed Tobasi performing the play, "And Here I Am"
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Burraq Shabbir, journalist:
"The way he captured every emotion, the way he expressed how he felt at that certain point that he was recalling and telling the audiences, and the way he enacted so many people like his friends, his family, and the person at the theater, I think that was something that intensified the performance. We were really in it. And the best part was despite the unfortunate scenario about the genocide in Palestine, I think the comic relief was a breath of fresh air – that despite so much pain, so much hurt they have been caused, I think they tried to put it as light as they could for the audience to digest."
3. Various of Tobasi performing on stage
4. Audience applauding
5. Audience member clapping along to performance
6. Tobasi performing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Zoe Lafferty, play director:
"It was very clear, wars, checkpoints, army, killing. It was very clear what was happening, what Israel was doing – backed by Britain, America, Europe. So, as soon as you see what is happening, you can’t be neutral. You understand what’s happening is completely wrong."
8. Various of Tobasi performing on stage
9. Lamp
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Tobasi, play’s lead actor:
"It’s occupation. It’s a very violent, crazy occupation in Palestine – a genocide that has been happening for 75 years. It’s just only now the world is starting to understand what is going on. For me, there is no solution. We tried everything as Palestinians. We tried to do everything. Violence, not violence, guns, not guns, culture. Clearly this white mentality, colonization from the West, the only thing they want (is) to get more, colonize more, eat more, take more, occupy more. So, for me the only solution for this planet to relax and calm down (is) that the propaganda of the West, the colonization, stop."
11. Various of Tobasi performing on stage
12. Mobile filming Tobasi performing
13. Various of Tobasi saluting audience during applause
14. Audience clapping for Tobasi
15. Tobasi saying, UPSOUND (English): "Because always people mix up between Palestine, Pakistan"
16. Tobasi with production team
17. Tilt-down on Arts Council
STORYLINE:
Theatergoers in Karachi were moved by a performance by Palestinian actor Ahmed Tobasi in a play about his life.
"And Here I Am" was performed at Pakistan’s Arts Council over the weekend, highlighting the struggles of the Palestinians over decades.
The play weaved together elements of reality and imagination, even combining tragedy with humor.
Tobasi used his time on stage to act out scenes from the 1987 uprising against Israel’s military occupation in what came to be known as the first intifada.
The actor also performed scenes portraying the second uprising by Palestinians, which began in 2000.
It is "a genocide that has been happening for 75 years," Tobasi said off-stage, adding "we tried everything as Palestinians."
Some 700,000 Palestinians — a majority of the prewar population — fled or were driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s establishment.
After the war, Israel refused to allow them to return because it would have resulted in a Palestinian majority within its borders.
In Gaza, the refugees and their descendants make up around three-quarters of the population.
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