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I've got my tickets today for the Two Plays for Gaza show this Thursday at the Hackney Empire and confirm that show is almost sold out so ring the number below now if you want to see Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children and David Wilson's The Trainer. All funds raised are going towards the rebuilding of the Gaza Music School.

For tickets (£15) call: the Hackney Empire box office on 020 8985 2424 or visit: www.hackneyempire.co.uk
Two Plays for Gaza

A benefit evening for the Gaza Music School & Stop the War Coalition

Hackney Empire, Thursday 21 May @ 7.30 PM

This exciting evening will include Caryl Churchill's powerful Seven Jewish Children , a 10-minute play about Gaza. The playwright Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon said of it " . . . dense, beautiful, elusive and intentionally indeterminate. It's disturbing, it's provocative, but appropriately so given the magnitude of the calamity it entails." Caryl will introduce her play which will include some of the cast members from its Royal Court premiere in February 2009.

The second play is The Trainer by David Wilson & Anne Aylor (and with contributions from Keith Burstein) which explores the love story between a British Jew, Josh, and his Palestinian fiancée, Taghreed, who works in a gentlemen's gym. Their story is interwoven with the bankrupting of composer, Keith Burstein, who was accused of "glorifying terrorism" in his opera, Manifest Destiny . The Trainer casts a sly, satiric look at the absurdity of many of the UK's terror laws. This eclectic, contemporary drama uses a multimedia approach with excerpts from Manifest Destiny , film footage and TV interviews with a terrorism "expert". You will laugh and cry about the savagery and stupidity of the times we are living in. The star cast includes Janie Dee , fresh from her starring role in Alan Ayckbourn's A Woman in Mind at the Vaudeville, Roger Lloyd Pack , "Trigger" from Only Fools and Horses and Lebanese-American actress Jana Zeineddine who has appeared in The West Wing, Law & Order and Saturday Night Live. Corin Redgrave, who appeared at the first sold-out rehearsed reading in March said, " The Trainer takes the scandal of an artist bankrupted by the state . . . and brilliantly exposes the threat to our freedoms and civil liberties."

Also appearing on the bill will be renowned Palestinian singer, Reem Kelani , rap poet Lowkey and ex-SAS soldier Ben Griffin who will read from the Winter Soldier Investigation into the Vietnam war. The benefit will be introduced by Tony Benn and directed by Tom Platten.

"David and Anne Aylor's play makes a surreal case for less government interference in our lives and an emotional plea for peace, love and understanding." Tim Pigott-Smith

"The Gaza Music school must be re-built so the children will again have a place to sing, dance and make music." David Wilson , former Director, Pavarotti Music Centre, Mostar, Bosnia

7.30pm Thursday 21 May 2009
Hackney Empire, 291 Mare Street
London E8 1EJ

For tickets (£15) call: the Hackney Empire box office on 020 8985 2424 or visit: www.hackneyempire.co.uk
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