When 38-year-old actress Sonia visits her family in Haifa after years in London, she realizes the complexity of her relationship with Palestine. She meets a theater director and joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank, but rehearsals are overshadowed by Israeli checkpoints and arrests, part of the daily life of the Palestinian cast. What can Shakespeare’s play tell us in this country haunted by violence and trauma?
A staged reading from the novel will complement the conversation.
In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective« at Freie Universität Berlin.
With Isabella Hammad
Moderated by Hanan Natour
Staged reading by Lamis Ammar, Maryam Abu Khaled
Dramaturgy: Katharina Schütt
The event will be held in English.
Isabella Hammad’s novel Enter Ghost was translated from English into German by Henning Ahrens.