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2024-10-19

  EPILOGUE | Letter to Gaza

In 2024 Ashtar Theatre started a new project: letters to Gaza. During the Leo Season Birthday extravaganza, KP, Tarneem and Ahmad all created audio art in what they called "Mermaid Palace: the Cairo Office" aka: the very spacious air bnb KP rented wher...
  Kaitlin Prest author
2024-10-15

  AHMA-NOLOGUE | An Anniversary + A Birthday

This episode was named months ago: a prayer, a wish shared by one Tarneem Jaber and one Kaitlin Prest. "THE GENOCIDE IS A MEMORY, NOT AN ANNIVERSARY". On the anniversary of the genocide has gotten even more terrifying as we mark an entire year of slaug...
  Kaitlin Prest author
2024-09-23

  MONOLOGUE#10 | Whatever You Build + Empty Cans

Artist and business owner Doreen Toutikian, founder of Beirut Design Week (and many other beautiful things that she’s had to leave in her past due to war) sits down with KP on February 23rd 2024 and performs monologue #10: Taima Okasha. She reflects on...
  Kaitlin Prest author
2024-09-14

  MONOLOGUE #19 | If the Sea Could Talk

Audio artist and organizer Aliya Pabani takes Gaza Monologue #19 and binaural in-ear microphones (be sure to listen for the 3-dimensional effect: listen in headphones and you will walk with her) to a Toronto branch of the largest worldwide financier of...
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2024-09-03

  IN THIS MONOLOGUE: THE JABER TRIFECTA | A Point in the Sea + Gaza’s Dreams

“Before, you could count how many buildings they destroyed. Now, you count how many buildings they didn’t destroy” — Tarneem JaberTarneem (19 yrs old)  was starting her first week of med school on October 7th. Ahmad (21 yrs old) was in his third year o...
  Kaitlin Prest author
2024-08-23

  MONOLOGUE#22: MAHMUD // ALAA | A Cup of Tea + The Horse of Jenin

Comedian Alaa Shahada talks about artist life in Jenin, West Bank. We hear a radiomagic excerpt of his one-man show "The Horse of Jenin". He talks about his dreams for the future of Palestine and performs Gaza Monologue #22 Mahmud Abu Shaa’ban. Alaa is...
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2024-08-15

  MONOLOGUE#1: AHMAD // ALI | Electricity Complexes + Keys Around Their Necks

Ali Dajani grew up in Jordan and studied in Canada, where he met KP, the friend that sits down with him in his Amsterdam home to read Gaza Monologue #1: the story of Ahmad El Ruzzi. Ali's paternal grandfather left Jerusalem in 1948. "What happened in 1...
  Kaitlin Prest author
2024-07-25

  TRAILER Great Love | Gaza Monologues Revisited

The famed monologues created by Ashtar Theatre (Ramallah) in 2010 revisited by The Heart.“We still live as if death mistakes us. We — who are capable of remembrance — are capable of liberation.”― Mahmoud DarwishPlease give generously to the young peopl...
  Kaitlin Prest author
2024-07-19

  An Update from KP: The Best Valentine's Day I Ever Had

In this update-isode, we follow KP's whereabouts and goings-on since the Processing Palestine episode and the events that led to the genesis of our upcoming series: GREAT LOVE: The Gaza Monologues Revisited. Responding to Ashtar Theatre’s global call t...
  Kaitlin Prest author
2024-04-03

  Ode to Sound

KP says sweet nothings about the great love of her life: SOUND. A shared moment and meditation: recorded at 4AM in Athens Greece with the window open as the rain fell, gazing at the Athenian mountains aka: former home of the Gods. Use this episode like...
  Kaitlin Prest author