Zoe Lafferty News

The Freedom Theatre, a leading theatre company based in the Jenin Refugee Camp, occupied Palestine, will bring its brand new production The Siege to the Tron as part of its first ever UK tour. This is the first opportunity for UK based theatre audiences to see the work of this renowned company that has travelled across the world and uses theatre as a form of generating cultural resistance as well as providing opportunities to create a vibrant and  creative artistic community in the northern part of the West Bank.

Birmingham Repertory Theatre announces a new season of work today for Spring and Summer 2015 including major revivals of the Pulitzer prize-winning HARVEY, THE KING'S SPEECH plus the world premieres of six very different, but equally original plays.

Now in its sixth consecutive year, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre presents Vibrant 2014 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, its annual explosion of new writing and part of its 20 Premieres season, running between 2-20 November 2014.

Ahamd Tobasi and Zoe Lafferty, from The Freedom Theatre Palestine, journey to Wilton's to screen shorts, films and documentaries and to discuss cultural resistance.

FINBOROUGHFORUM presents EIGHT BURNING QUESTIONS ABOUT PLAYWRITING, curated by Elizabeth Kuti and Luke Holbrook.

2012's hit Finborough Theatre play The Fear of Breathing - Stories from the Syrian Revolution by Zoe Lafferty, Ruth Sherlock and Paul Wood will be translated into Japanese and mounted in a new production by One Two Works at Tokyo's Akasaka Red Theatre. It will run from 11 - 17 November 2013, directed by the acclaimed Toshinobu Kojo.

FINBOROUGHFORUM presents EIGHT BURNING QUESTIONS ABOUT PLAYWRITING, curated by Elizabeth Kuti and Luke Holbrook.

THE FEAR OF BREATHING, the world premiere of a new play based entirely on verbatim reports from inside Syria itself, opens at the Finborough Theatre for a limited four-week season from Tuesday, 17 July 2012.