two Palestinians go dogging
'Your hobbies are limited to Arab Idol and cooking lentils and having sex in fields late at night.'
The year is 2043, and Reem and her husband Sayeed are going to share a 'Serious Play about Palestine'. Things are tense. People are on the edge. The Fifth Intifada is right around the corner. But on a contested piece of land near their village of Beit al-Qadir, Reem and Sayeed are about to go dogging. Don't worry, you're allowed to laugh.
Sami Ibrahim's play two Palestinians go dogging uses the lens of humour to explore how the everyday becomes political and the political becomes everyday in a conflict zone.
The play won the Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award in 2019 and was premiered in May 2022 at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, directed by Omar Elerian.
Sami Ibrahim was writer-in-residence at Shakespeare’s Globe and one of the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights. His other plays include Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her (VAULT Festival), Iron Dome Fog Dome (The Yard), Force of Trump (Brockley Jack) and a reimagining of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Shakespeare’s Globe).