Dia Barghouti

Journey to the Third Dimension of a Clementine is an experimental play inspired by indigenous performance traditions that were part of Palestinian Sufi festivals before the Nakba, in Karagoz (shadow puppet) theater in particular. The plot revolves around three events involving planes: the disappearance of an Ottoman pilot in 1914, the bombing of Jerusalem in 1967, and the exile of Palestinian resistance fighters who had taken refuge in the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in 2000. While an exploration of Palestinian cultural and political history, the aim of this work is not just to remind audiences of past events but also to pose questions on the relationship of the Palestinian public to their theatrical history and the potential for reviving theatrical traditions that had died out after the Nakba.