“The West Bank’s nightly curfews, checkpoints and pipe bombs make for gallows humour in this defiant comedy that gives a voice to the voiceless”.

— Mark Fisher, The Guardian

Showtime from the Frontline

  • Dodging cultural and literal bullets, Israeli incursions and religion, Mark Thomas and his team set out to run a comedy club for two nights in the Palestinian city of Jenin. Only to find it’s not so simple to celebrate freedom of speech in a place with so little freedom.

    Jenin refugee camp, home to Jenin Freedom Theatre and to people with a wealth of stories to tell. Mark tells this story alongside two of its actors and aspiring comics Faisal Abualheja and Alaa Shehada.  A story about being yourself in a place that wants to put you in a box.

  • Written by Mark Thomas
    Performed by Mark Thomas, Faisal Abu Alhayjaa & Alaa Shehada
    Directed by Joe Douglas
    Sound Design by Michael John McCarthy
    Video Design by Lewis Den Hertog
    Production Managment by Tine Selby

  • Mark Thomas: Showtime from the Frontline review – clowning for Palestine

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