28. Bad Activist, Part I : Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2017
11/27/17 • -1 min
Welcome to the (first part of the) second version of Bad Activist: Sex Politics, Palestine and YOU... or maybe version 2.5. A play, by Humble Mumbles
Narrator: Who is this girl? [enter Bad Activist] I met her in Palestine but she’s not Palestinian. She’s an American. An American Jew. ... the star of this play and also my heart.
Bad Activist: The energy here is so topsy-turvy, so extreme of high and lows! I keep trying to flirt with people!..... but they’re too busy narrowly avoiding death. I get that [pause] It’s more inappropriate to be attracted to someone’s nationality than their body, right? More fetishistic?
Narrator [to audience]: I assumed she was joking so I didn’t answer her, not then, not now.
What was born at the Night Kitchen bit.ly/2hPVUd2
and transmogrified into a local art bit.ly/2A5RvgM
has now become... an Experimental Theatrical in the Philadelphia Fringe Fest of 2017 !
What it looked like: bit.ly/2mZKskL
What the people said: bit.ly/2vU8kq0 bit.ly/2hQgrOC bit.ly/2A5aXdW
See a newer, less brechtian Third Version of this play touring the East Coast of the United States in Spring 2018.
What you can expect in Bad Activist, Version 3.5 —>
more Shakespearean ghost sequences, confrontation, making out. Plus: brand new scenes! a whole new character!
Welcome to the (first part of the) second version of Bad Activist: Sex Politics, Palestine and YOU... or maybe version 2.5. A play, by Humble Mumbles
Narrator: Who is this girl? [enter Bad Activist] I met her in Palestine but she’s not Palestinian. She’s an American. An American Jew. ... the star of this play and also my heart.
Bad Activist: The energy here is so topsy-turvy, so extreme of high and lows! I keep trying to flirt with people!..... but they’re too busy narrowly avoiding death. I get that [pause] It’s more inappropriate to be attracted to someone’s nationality than their body, right? More fetishistic?
Narrator [to audience]: I assumed she was joking so I didn’t answer her, not then, not now.
What was born at the Night Kitchen bit.ly/2hPVUd2
and transmogrified into a local art bit.ly/2A5RvgM
has now become... an Experimental Theatrical in the Philadelphia Fringe Fest of 2017 !
What it looked like: bit.ly/2mZKskL
What the people said: bit.ly/2vU8kq0 bit.ly/2hQgrOC bit.ly/2A5aXdW
See a newer, less brechtian Third Version of this play touring the East Coast of the United States in Spring 2018.
What you can expect in Bad Activist, Version 3.5 —>
more Shakespearean ghost sequences, confrontation, making out. Plus: brand new scenes! a whole new character!
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27. Wisam Salsaa of Banksy’s Walled-Off Hotel
In this episode our Humble Mumbles representative speaks with Wisam Salsaa, owner and manager of The Walled-Off Hotel (a play on Waldorf Hotel), the creation of renowned political art cipher Banksy.
Is this hotel effective political satire? Disrespectful Western meddling? A comfortable abode for the traveler to Bethlehem?
Salsaa fields all these criticisms and more (is the hotel antizionist enough? is it responsive to the local community; what IS Palestinian community), speaks about the hotel’s clientele (Westerners, Palestinians and... Israelis), the hotel’s future, and the responsibility of art. Enjoy.
Music provided by a few recorded seconds in the hotel’s museum and Philadelphian musicmakers Blown Away
Thanks to Wisam Salsaa and The Walled Off Hotel, Never Forget Radio,The Pollination Project & the Puffin Foundation
The Walled Off Hotel
walledoffhotel.com
A plethora of opinions:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/03/walled-hotel-struggle-decolonisation-170312143224959.html
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775854
http://www.buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/21-politically-subversive-views-from-inside-bankys-new-hotel?utm_term=.dgDkP3qZb#.wnVLAbXYq
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero032217
972mag.com/banksys-new-project-tells-the-story-of-palestine/126395/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KGgDZcHJmw
For our non-Arabic speakers, you may notice that Salsaa often peppers his speech with the word ‘yianni’ which is essentially slang for ‘you know’ or ‘so to speak’ so now you know, yianni.
[audio http://archive.org/download/wisam_at_banksy/Wisam_at_Banksy.mp3]Next Episode
29. Bad Activist, Part II : Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2017
Welcome to the (second part of the) second version of Bad Activist: Sex Politics, Palestine and YOU... or maybe version 2.5. A play, by Humble Mumbles
Narrator: Who is this girl? [enter Bad Activist] I met her in Palestine but she’s not Palestinian. She’s an American. An American Jew. ... the star of this play and also my heart.
Bad Activist: The energy here is so topsy-turvy, so extreme of high and lows! I keep trying to flirt with people!..... but they’re too busy narrowly avoiding death. I get that [pause] It’s more inappropriate to be attracted to someone’s nationality than their body, right? More fetishistic?
Narrator [to audience]: I assumed she was joking so I didn’t answer her, not then, not now.
What was born at the Night Kitchen bit.ly/2hPVUd2
and transmogrified into a local art bit.ly/2A5RvgM
has now become... an Experimental Theatrical in the Philadelphia Fringe Fest of 2017 !
What it looked like: bit.ly/2mZKskL
What the people said: bit.ly/2vU8kq0 bit.ly/2hQgrOC bit.ly/2A5aXdW
See a newer, less brechtian Third Version of this play touring the East Coast of the United States in Spring 2018.
What you can expect in Bad Activist, Version 3.5 —>
more Shakespearean ghost sequences, confrontation, making out. Plus: brand new scenes! a whole new character!
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