Cherry Theft under Apartheid: Playback Theatre in the South Hebron Hills of Occupied Palestine

Beginning in December 2011, The Freedom Theatre began using Playback Theatre in villages, refugee camps, and Bedouin communities throughout the West Bank of Occupied Palestine. In the South Hebron Hills, various ethical imperatives came to the fore — including the need to honor the integrity of the narrator’s subjective experience and avoid the replication of oppressive power dynamics — as the group simultaneously attended to the realities of staging stories.