Fireworks (Al'ab Nariya): a Palestinian play at The Royal Court Theatre, 12 Feb – 14 Mar 2015

In a Palestinian town, 11 year-old Lubna and 12 year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege intensifies outside, fear for their safety becomes as crippling as the conflict itself.

Dalia Taha’s play gives us a new way of seeing how war fractures childhood.