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Jonathan Gillis

JONATHAN GILLIS

  
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Playwright Jonathan Gillis one-man play, The Dreamer, a modern take on the Genesis story of Pharaohs baker, was a sell-out at the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem, the Leeds International Festival for the Performing Arts in 2011 and at Cambridge Limmud in 2013. Born in Sunderland and educated at Manchester, Oxford and Jerusalem, Jonathan received an MA with distinction in creative writing from the UEA in 2010. He works as a lawyer and teacher, and is a former chair and on-going board member of the Israeli disability rights action group, Bizchut. Close to Home draws on his experiences as an IDF reservist in a prison in the Negev during the 1990s.

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         Close To Home         Dreamer, The

Close To Home

Synopsis:
A routine morning count in a prison in Israel. Nine years on, two men  Alan, an English-born Israeli former guard, and Nabil, a Palestinian former prisoner  continue to wrestle with the memories and fall-out from the event. Preparing to face one another again, their dramatic stories unfold, along with the questions unresolved, over who they are and where they belong.

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Now in its seventh consecutive year, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre - the coalface of British Theatre - presents its annual explosion of new writing - Vibrant 2015 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, running on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday and Thursday matinees between 25 October-12 November 2015. This year's festival features an eclectic and idiosyncratic selection of twelve staged readings of twelve new works by a dozen UK and international playwrights, both established and new, all discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre. Concentrated solely on full length works for the stage, this year's Vibrant 2015 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights includes playwrights from England, Scotland, Wales, the United States and New Zealand. As always we strive to be as diverse as possible, and this year's festival once again features 50% female playwrights, together with work from African-American, East Asian, British-Lebanese, British-Israeli and Maori playwrights.

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Dreamer, The

Synopsis:
a modern take on the Genesis story of Pharaohs baker

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Khan Theatre in Jerusalem    ?2011

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one-man play

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