Verbatim theatre often comes to us shaped by the voice of the playwright, but this show, performed by 10 Palestinian teenagers who live in Bethlehem, is straight from the horse's mouth. For three years the girls kept diaries about their everyday lives in Bethlehem during the second intifada. They tell of curfews, prohibitions on travel that prevent them doing ordinary things that teenagers take for granted, encounters with the Israeli military, the arrest of fathers and the death of cousins.
As a theatrical experience this is very much like watching a school play, but the simple honesty of the material transcends the awkwardness of presentation. They are like any other teenagers, dreaming of futures that include handsome husbands and houses with all mod-cons, and yet they live daily with the presence of death. "My soul is murdered," says one with a complete absence of self pity. At the end they gaze out into the future, bright eyed and without fear.
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