Two Palestinians Go Dogging

Sami Ibrahim

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Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award - 2019

The year is 2043, and Reem and her husband Sayeed are going to share a 'Serious Play about Palestine'. Things are tense. People are on the edge. The Fifth Intifada is right around the corner. But on a contested piece of land near their village of Beit al-Qadir, Reem and Sayeed are about to go dogging. Don't worry, you're allowed to laugh.

Sami Ibrahim's play two Palestinians go dogging uses the lens of humour to explore how the everyday becomes political and the political becomes everyday in a conflict zone.

The play premiered in May 2022 at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, directed by Omar Elerian.

Book Details

Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Publish Date: Apr 18th, 2023
Pages: 128
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 0.50in - 0.35lb
EAN: 9781848428850
Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Sami Ibrahim is a writer from London. His plays include: A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Paines Plough, 2022); two Palestinians go dogging (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2022; winner of the inaugural Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award in 2019); Metamorphoses, co-written with Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz, after Ovid (Shakespeare's Globe, 2021); Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her (2018 VAULT Festival, London); Iron Dome Fog Dome (The Yard, London, 2017) and Force of Trump (Brockley Jack). He has worked at the Almeida Theatre as a member of their Creative Board, developing and producing From the Ground Up, a piece of immersive theatre.

Praise for this book

"A devastatingly human portrait of conflict that sears itself on the mind. Sami Ibrahim's play is a startlingly bold tragicomedy and a furious call to action... as devastatingly epic as Greek tragedy... a show that comes with an enormous gut-punch, and is all that theatre should strive to be." --Guardian

"A darkly comic political drama, shot through with absurdism and bleak humour." --The Stage

"A dose of harsh reality... This play matters and is truly memorable." --Broadway Baby

"Entertaining and timely... a comedy that skilfully holds humour in uneasy tension with its characters' pain." --Telegraph

"Occasionally bleak, utterly brilliant... hilarious and harrowing... a stunningly insightful and entertaining play, one of the cultural high points of this year." --Broadway World