TALES OF A CITY BY THE SEA Coming to the Bakehouse

Tales of a City by the Sea is a unique and poetic journey exploring the lives of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges in the besieged and war torn Gaza Trip. Jomana, a woman from the Shati refugee camp falls in love with Rami, an American Palestinian doctor.

Coming to the Bakehouse after a successful season at the La Mama Courthouse in Melbourne, Tales of a City by the Sea is the story ot two people who meet and fall in love in the besieged Gaza strip during the bombardment of the winter of 2008.

Jomana, a Palestinian woman living in a Gaza refugee camp, falls in love with Rami, an American-born Palestinian doctor who has just arrived on one of the first Free Gaza boats. Their love is met with a relentless string of challenges. Ultimately, Rami must decide between returning to his comfortable life in Texas and staying in Gaza with Jomana.

Choosing to stay means leaving his family and career behind for a life ravaged by war, while leaving means not only losing Jomana but also ignoring the plight of the Palestinians.

Woven from the actual experiences of people living udner occupation, Tales of a City by the Sea is about what it means to leave home to create a life in more tolerable conditions, and what it means to stay. It is about relationships between parents who have chosen to leave, and children who want to return. It si about how people in diaspora see their connection to home, and how people at home see them. It is a Palestinian story, but more broadly it is a migrant story.

WHEN:
Preview June 8 at 8pm
Opening Night June 9 at 8pm
Season Continues until June 18 at 8pm
Matinee Sunday 12 June at 3pm

WHERE:
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide., South Australia. AUSTRALIA

TICKETS:
Adults $30, Concession $25, TREv $25, Grou[s (6+) $25, School Students $18.

BOOKINGS:
www.bakehousetheatre.com