The Power of Verbatim Theatre with Jen Marlowe
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On this weeks episode of Kunafa and Shay, join Marina and Nabra as they interview Jen Marlowe about her her company Donkeysaddle Productions, conducted interviews for 15 years to create the verbatim piece There is a Field, a play about Aseel Asleh, a 17-year old Palestinian citizen of Israel killed by police in October 2000. Donkeysaddle used this piece to connect communities in the way the piece was subsequently performed and then documented. Listen to find out how this piece came to be.
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