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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 06/05/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3720">Ella Ryan</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>A crew of Palestinian actors and musicians from the Jenin-based Freedom Theatre toured Egypt in April.</p>
<p>The aim of the tour was to conduct a series of “playback theatre” workshops and performances in Cairo and Alexandria. Playback theatre is an interactive theatre approach used as a tool for community building, public dialogue, cultural activism and trauma recovery.</p>
<p>In a playback event, audience members share thoughts, feelings, memories and autobiographical accounts, and watch as a team of actors and musicians instantly transform these experiences into improvised theatre pieces.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50928" target="_blank">read more</a></p>