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The People's Theatre of Seattle Tackles the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

By Jeremy M. Barker
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Zaki Abdelhamid, Devin Kearns, and Terrence Boyd in People's Theatre of Seattle's "Sixteeen Wounded." Photo by Mike Hipple.

This weekend is the closing weekend of a daring show by the People's Theatre of Seattle, a new theatre company founded by actors Zaki Abdelhamid and Devin Kearns: Sixteen Wounded, a play by Eliam Kraiem about the vagaries of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (at Open Circle/Freehold, tickets $15). Set in the Netherlands during the Nineties, the story is about an angry young Palestinian immigrant who finds himself saved by an aging Holocaust survivor.

If the story risks being a bit precious, it's nevertheless timely and willing tackle an otherwise controversial topic, and I can't help but applaud the efforts of artists like Abdelhamid (a phenomenal actor who recently won praise for his performance in Yussef El-Guindi's Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes at Theater Schmeater) for creating new opportunities for the theatre to tackle complex issues in an otherwise watered down and risk-averse scene.

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Way to go
We in Canada are proud of our own Zaki and His lovely wife Devin
Their courage and briliance in tackling difficult issue such as injustice is what North America needs to see
Keep it up guys
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