If you want to know how free a society is, look at what’s happening in its theatres

‘Pieced together from diary entries and emails, it is an encounter with the present as much as the past.’ Sascha Shinder in My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the Old Red Lion theatre, London, 2024.‘Pieced together from diary entries and emails, it is an encounter with the present as much as the past.’ Sascha Shinder in My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the Old Red Lion theatre, London, 2024.Political art helps us debate and confront the challenges in our lives.

It might be deemed activist by some because of its timing, or humanitarian, given that ticket sales go towards helping one Palestinian family affected by Israeli bombardment. Still, I’m told that some creatives were reluctant to get involved because they feared it might tar their reputation and make them less employable. Venues as a whole are more cautious, Rosen-Fouladi says. Times are hard, funding is short, there is more jeopardy in highly political plays like this one, it seems.The staging of a political play is a gauge of how free a society really is, to my mind.

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