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...

The original cast of The Trainer, including Corin Redgrave and Tim Pigott-Smith, perform the play at Oxford House in east London in March. Some of the cast will also appear at the Two Plays for Gaza event (Pic: » Guy Smallman ) The playwrights David Wilson and Anne Aylor spoke to Socialist Worker about the Two Plays for Gaza event Some of Britain’s most celebrated playwrights and performers have joined together to put on an evening that will raise money and awareness for the people of Palestine and the anti-war movement. Two Plays for Gaza will take place on Thursday 21 May at the Hackney Empire in east London. It will feature Caryl Churchill’s Seven Jewish Children, a powerful ten minute play about Israel, the Palestinians and Gaza, and David Wilson and Ann Aylor’s The Trainer, a tale of love between a British Jew and a Palestinian woman. more

Photograph Guy Smallman The Trainer – is a surreal comedy about the ‘terror’ laws as they descend into farce. Composer Keith Burstein sues the Evening Standard after being accused of 'glorifying' terror in his opera, Manifest Destiny. When his case goes to the Appeal Court, the judges go to a gym to exercise between court sessions. The gym trainer is Leila, a young Palestinian woman. "Gripping drama. A passionate and telling condemnation of an injustice made possible by the anti-terrorism laws." - Michael Kustow, theatre director, former Channel 4 arts commissioner Staged reading directed by Tom Platten. Box Office 020 8985 2424 Web: www.hackneyempire.co.uk Email: info@hackneyempire.co.uk Links: Location map