From the West Bank

It's a great idea – to create a season of new works focusing on "stories resulting from conflict or political upheaval". Andy Arnold, artistic director of the Tron and instigator of the event, has woven Glasgow's political and theatrical Maytime histories into a fortnight of performances and called it Mayfesto. Reflecting in miniature the scope of the whole, From the West Bank is a collection of three short plays refracting different aspects of Arab experience through Palestinian, Italian and Scottish eyes. It is performed on a beautifully simple and evocative set (by Kenny Miller) – a pathway, or riverbed of pebbles, in front of a grey-black stage (Palestinian hillside, or Egyptian prison, or British kitchen) against a backdrop of shifting colours. In An Imagined Sarha, the best of the three, adapted by David Greig from Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks, a Palestinian, walking over his native hills, "going where his spirit takes him to nourish his soul", encounters an Israeli settler. Touchingly, although the men fail to agree on politics, they achieve understanding through shared love of the land.