At Home in Gaza and London

Join us for a screening of At Home in Gaza and London in the Council Chamber at Battersea Arts Centre.

In 2016 Station House Opera and a group of artistic collaborators in Gaza began a series of digital workshops, developing a theatre piece where they appear together in a single space shared by audiences in both cities. These resulted in performances in July 2018, connecting El Wedad Theatre with Battersea Arts Centre and the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival.

At Home in Gaza and London follows the lives of people living in two locations separated by great political, economic and physical divides. By using a mix of live-streaming and recorded video, a single performance space is created where artists work together. They occupy each other’s homes, streets and other social spaces. Sharing their everyday behaviour and concerns, as they dissolve into each other or become ghostly protagonists in the drama.

Many of the collaborators in the production are still living in Gaza. They have lost family members, friends, and homes. One of them, Ayah Abdulrahman died of cancer in 2019, having received intermittent yet insufficient treatment due to the blockade on Gaza. Both of the theatres we worked in have been destroyed.

At Home in Gaza and London was last presented at BAC in 2018. We now return to the space to share messages from the Gazan team and will try to connect to those we can live.