The Freedom Theatre aims to promote cultural forms of resistance in Jenin camp, one of the most deprived areas of the West Bank and a bastion of Palestinian militancy.

NYU Skirball will present the North American premiere of the Palestinian company The Freedom Theatre's The Siege, running for 10 performances, tonight, October 12, through October 22, 2017.

The Freedom Theatre exemplifies this cultural resistance. It was hardly surprising, then, that The Freedom Theatre was a special target during an Israeli raid into Jenin early in July.

The Freedom Theatre started in a Palestinian refugee camp in 2006, with the aim of using culture as a form of resistance against oppression.

NYU Skirball will present the North American premiere of the Palestinian company The Freedom Theatre's The Siege, running for 10 performances, October 12- 22, 2017.

Jenin's Freedom Theatre was ransacked by Israeli soldiers, its staff thrown in jail. Once celebrated as a peace initiative, it's the latest casualty of near-daily military raids on the West Bank.

When the Freedom Theatre, from the Jenin refugee camp in Palestine, open their play The Siege at Glasgow's Tron Theatre on June 17 they will be making a little bit of Scottish theatre history. The ...