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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>Getting Plan D On Feed</title><link>http://blog.pland.co.uk/</link><description>This blog details Hannah&#039;s experience of producing her play &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pland.co.uk&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Plan D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at the Tristan Bates Theatre, from 25 January to 13 February 2010.</description><item><title>Article on Scenes From 62 Years</title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=27</link><description><![CDATA[  Just a quick note to let those of you who can speak arabic know that there was an article on my new play Scenes From 62 Years in Dar Al Hayat paper, here's the link: 
  http://bit.ly/aWYrQu  
   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:46:29 +0100</pubDate><category>Post Production</category></item><item><title>Reading update</title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=26</link><description><![CDATA[  Thank you to everyone who came to the reading of  Scenes From 62 Years  at the  Mosaic Rooms  last week. We were filled to the rafters and had a wonderful cast of actors: 
    
   
 Jennie Christo, Stephen Darcy (pictured), Jermaine Dominque (pictured), Houda Echouafni, Andy Lucas, Charlotte Pyke (pictured) and Simon Silva. 
   
   
 Sadly Joanna Wake was sick on the day and so I had to read in, which was nerve wracking but I don’t think it marred the audience’s enjoyment too much, who gave me a lot of interesting feedback afterwards, which I now need to mull over.  
   
 We are now at the beginning of our journey to get the play produced and I’ll make sure I post all the updates here, so watch this space. Any ideas you might have would be gratfeully recieved email me at  hannah@PlanD.co.uk  
   
 In the meantime a big thank to you the actors, the director Chris White, the A.M. Qattan Foundation for hosting the reading and the Jerwood Space for offering us subsidised rehearsal space.  
   
 I also took a few pics at the rehearsal for the reading which you can see in the  Plan D Gallery . 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:04:09 +0100</pubDate><category>Post Production</category></item><item><title>Invitation - Scenes From 62 Years</title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=25</link><description><![CDATA[  As promised here are the details of the reading - the first sneak preview - of my new play about Palestine  Scenes From 62 Years  
   
   
 Its kindly being hosted at the beautiful  Mosiac Rooms  at the Qattan Foundation in Earls Court on  Wednesday 1 September at 6.30pm . I really hope you can make it.  
 Please  RSVP  if you'd like to come to  hannah@pland.co.uk  as there'll be a guest list on the door - how exciting.  
 I'm in the process of confirming the actors - who I hope will include some of the wonderful people who were in Plan D - I'll report back as soon as I have any confirmed.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:00:28 +0100</pubDate><category>Post Production</category></item><item><title>My New Play </title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=24</link><description><![CDATA[  I just wanted to update you on what I've been up to since Plan D closed - no I haven't been squandering my time, in fact I've written a new play about Palestine. 
 I finished a first draft of   Scenes From 62 Years   about a month ago, then did an informal reading with some lovely actors (some of whom were in Plan D). After that I've redrafted and I now have the new play! 
 I'm planning to do a public staged reading in London in early September, date and venue to be confirmed. 
 Watch this space for more information... 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:05:05 +0100</pubDate><category>Post Production</category></item><item><title>Upcoming Talk &amp; Further News</title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=23</link><description><![CDATA[  Well Plan D closed 3 months ago now - can it be so long? Last month the play's director Chris White and I travelled to Ghent in Belgium where we participated in the inaugural Palestinian Film festival planned by theatre company  Victoria Deluxe  and Peace organisation Vrede. It was an amazing weekend with fascinating seminars, discussions and films and I had the privilege of sitting on a discussion panel on the topic of Cultural Resistance.  
 For those of you who are interested in learning more about Palestine I've decided to post occasional related events here, there is one coming up organised by Living Stones, at St Marys University in Strawberry Hill (coincidentally - where I went to uni). It’s the  Michael Prior Memorial lecture  being given by 
 Jacqueline Rose called   Endgame: Beckett and Genet in the Middle East   on  Wednesday 26 May at 6-8pm  
 It should be very interesting.  
 I'm also currently writing a new play about Palestine - watch this space... 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 14:57:36 +0100</pubDate><category>Post Production</category></item><item><title>Me Again - Ignore if you don&#039;t speak Arabic!</title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=22</link><description><![CDATA[  Hi there - thought you'd seen the back of me for a while, didn't you... 
 Just a heads up for anyone reading who is an Arabic speaker that we have a feature about the play in Al Quds Al Arabi. 
 You can   read about Plan D in Al Quds Al Arabi   by clicking here. 
   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:16:36 +0000</pubDate><category>Post Production</category></item><item><title>Curtain Call</title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=21</link><description><![CDATA[  I am in shock It's all over! 6 weeks gone in a flash… 
 The last week was completely sold out! I only managed to watch by sitting in the lighting box with our lovely stage manager Alexia while Chris the director and Paul the designer stood at the back!  
 On Friday after the show we had a meal with all our lovely cast in a great Arabic restaurant called Safadi Express in Holborn. Then on Saturday we had to do the 'Get Out' (ie erasing all memory of our play from the theatre) straight after the play which was really odd. I came close to throwing a tantrum as I watched our beautiful steel set being cut up into pieces that would fit out of the door and into Jona's van *SOB* 
 But thanks to Jacob the very efficient TBT technician we managed to get the last tube home, laden down with props and dirty costumes (the glamour). 
 It's very sad to think that is the end of Plan D. It was such a strong production - I feel very privileged as I'm sure most writers don't feel like the final piece on stage is entirely what they had envisioned when writing it - but that was truly my experience with Plan D.  
 I really hope this isn't the end… you never know an opportunity might arise to do it again… if it does I'll update this blog with info so you all hear about it first.  
 Till then if you need to get hold of me I'm on Hannah@PlanD.co.uk 
 Thank you everyone who came to see the play and who has been reading the blog 
 H+ 
   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:23:45 +0000</pubDate><category>Performances</category></item><item><title>A Fantastic Screening</title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=20</link><description><![CDATA[  Last night after the show there was a very special post-performance event.  Eyal Sivan  an Israeli documentary maker came to see the play and afterwards screened some excerpts from his  Towards A Common Archive . These interviews were part of the Oral Histories day I went to at SOAS a couple of years ago which inspired me to write the play, so it was very exciting and moving for me to be able to see them again, and for the audience and cast to be able to share them. 
  Eyal picked some very interesting interviews and I think everyone was struck by them… It was also clear to see how they connected to the play - it was fantastic. There's a short biog of Eyal at the bottom for those of you who are interested - his new film will be screened at the  Palestinian Film Festival at the Barbican from 30 April to 14 May  - I'm already excited to see it.  
   Tickets Update:   We have only 4 performances to go, and they are more or less sold out - but there may be returns available   so do ask to go on the reserves list  . 
  Eyal Sivan is a London based Filmmaker, producer, essayist and scholar. Currently he is Reader in Media production and co-leader of the MA in Film Video and New Media program at the school of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London (UEL). Born in Haifa Israel in 1964, Eyal grew up in Jerusalem and after working as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv he left Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris where he lived for 22 years. Eyal directed more then 10 worldwide awarded feature-length political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic works were shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Eyal’s works are regularly exhibit in many major contemporary art shows around the world. Eyal publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes’ representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation. He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris based film production company, Momento! as well as the distribution company Scalpel. Sivan is the founder and Chief Editor of Cinema South Notebooks in Israel - a journal of cinema and Political critic, and editor as member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique. He’s member of the editorial board and columnist at the French social studies journal De l'autre Côté. 
   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Performances</category></item><item><title>Familiar Faces in the Crowd</title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=19</link><description><![CDATA[  Well here we are - almost halfway through the run, I can hardly believe it! I'm so proud of the play and the actors and I'm really enjoying myself. 
 While sitting in the audience I've noticed a few people I recognise - apart from all my lovely friends and family who have come to see Plan D. Last night Dr Hassassian the Palestinian Ambassador was there - he really seemed to enjoy the play and chatted to the actors afterwards.  
 Meanwhile, last week on press night my mum was thoroughly excited to spot Eastender Nick Cotton - aka actor John Altman in the audience. 
 Earlier this week I am told Political Comedian Mark Thomas was watching - I wonder what he made of it… 
 We've also had a few more reviews - here's the   Camden New Journal review   that came out today. 
 Those of you who speak Arabic may also be interested to know I'm being interviewed this evening for Al Quds paper, I'll forward the link to that when it's published too. 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:01:17 +0000</pubDate><category>Performances</category></item><item><title>First Review</title><link>http://iloapp.pland.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=18</link><description><![CDATA[  Well I have no nails left after our first three performances. But they have been crackers, especially Wednesday night when   Michael Billington from the Guardian   came along.  
 His review is in the Guardian today and he said some lovely things about the production: 
 “Khalil writes with feeling about homelessness, migration and a culture in which masculinity is equated with ownership.”  
 "sharp performances from George Couyas as the possessive father, Houda Echouafni as his guilt-ridden wife and Amira Ghazalla as her gun-bearing mother" 
   
   
 I've also added production shots to the   Plan D Gallery   - they are by Liz Hyder and beautiful - here's a taster: 
   
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