LINES

OVERVIEW

What connects five prisons over five decades in Uganda, Palestine, and the UK? LINES looks through the bars of postcolonial life as told through stories in diverging yet parallel worlds. Taking place in 1970s through 2010s, we meet ordinary people in disparate, yet interconnected situations, dealing with imprisonment and impossible choices. LINES is the story of John and Fidaa who meet at a theater festival in 2019 and decide to work together. Tracing the lines that connect them, they imagine who they might have had their timelines intersected in different ways over the past 50 years.

INFO | CREDITS

Production Year: 2024
Production Language: English
Production Duration: 60 mins

Dramaturgy by: Junaid Sarieddeen
Directed by: Junaid Sarieddeen 
Performed by: John Rwothomack and Fidaa Zidan
Created by: Alexandra Aron, Fidaa Zidan, John Rwothomack, Junaid Sarieddeen
Additional writing by: Asiimwe Deborah Kawe.
Produced by: Remote Theater Project, Roots Mbili Theatre, and Sheffield Theatres

PAST PERFORMANCES

28 February - 29 March, 2024

PREMIERE AND PERFORMANCE AT TANYA MOISEWITSCH PLAYHOUSE

Sheffield, England

15, 16 March, 2024

PERFORMANCE AT DERBY THEATRE

Derby, England

23 March, 2024

Performance at the dukes theatre

Lancaster, England

20, 21 March, 2024

Performance at stephen joseph theatre

Scarbough, England

5, 6 April, 2024

Performance at Harrogate theatre

Harrogate, England

26 April - 12 May, 2024

Performance at lamama theatre

New York, USA