Writer Isabella Hammad on politics, identity and the silencing of Palestinian voices

It tells the story of a British-Palestinian actress who returns to her homeland to visit her sister and gets caught up in a West Bank production of "Hamlet". Inspired in part by a documentary about a theatre school in the Jenin refugee camp, Hammad says she was interested in exploring theatre as an art form in the context of a military regime. 

She spoke to Alison Sargent about politics, "Hamlet" and the silencing of Palestinian voices.

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