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DREAD ANTICIPATION: Khawla Ibraheem performs her one woman show A Knock On The Roof
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A Knock on the Roof
Royal Court, London
A KNOCK ON THE ROOF is a one-person show.
Written and performed by Khawla Ibraheem, and originating off-Broadway, it takes us through one woman’s experience in one precise location in Gaza in the present era. And its veracity sings.
Ibraheem, herself, is actually Syrian, but her life in the Golan Heights supported by extensive conversations with people from Gaza has equipped her to develop this play which is directed with unswerving confidence by Oliver Butler.
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