To The Good People of Gaza

The first anthology of youth plays from Gaza and the wider Palestinian region, this timely collection ties together nineteen plays produced by Theatre Day Productions, one of the foremost community theatres in the Middle East. Written by playwright Jackie Lubeck, this collection responds to the siege on Gaza and the Israeli military operations from 2009 to 2014, reflecting how Gazan youth deal with trauma, loss and urban destruction.
In the nineteen plays within this anthology, the reader and theatrical producer witnesses experiences of a forgotten youth, besieged by a silent international community and a brutal wall. The plays are arranged into five different thematic series, which include family entanglements, loss and the fundamental goodness and resourcefulness of human beings.

Jackie Lubeck is a multi-national no-national playwright, living the better part of her life in Palestine. She is the co-founder of Theatre Day Productions (TDP), an organization that is both a production house for youth theatre and a training center for drama. Lubeck works throughout the Palestinian Territories but the biggest operation of TDP is in the Gaza Strip where she is both a writer and a designer. Jackie was born and bred in Brooklyn.
Samer Al-Saber is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University, USA, and faculty member at the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. He teaches courses concerned with identity, race, and ethnicity. A director and writer, his fieldwork intersects with theatre practice.

Preface by Jackie Lubeck, Playwright, Theatre Day Productions
Introduction by the Editor, Samer Al-Saber
Chapter 1: To The Good People of Gaza
Play #1: Blue
Play #2: Red
Play #3: White
Chapter 2: The Entanglement (15850)
Play #1: Grandfathers
Play #2: Mothers
Play #3: Brothers
Play #4: Sisters
Chapter 3: A Human Writes
Play #1: The Weavers
Play #2: The Electricians
Play #3: The Cooks
Chapter 4: Lost and Found
Play #1: The Room
Play #2: The Shop
Play #3: The School
Play #4: The Brother
Play #5: The Tree
Chapter 5: Thirteen Ways To Know A Black Bird
Play #1: One Thousand Questions
Play #2: The Snow Trip
Play #3: The Boys In the Mirror
Play #4: The Boys Who Can't Sit Still
Afterword by Jan MC Willems, director, Theatre Day Productions