Live music, poetry and a documentary film uniting two parts of the world.
This unique documentary film from Primate Productions, shot in the Arab Spring, follows a North-East production team of six to Shatila, the Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.
Living in the squalor of the camp for sixteen days, the directors, musicians and choreographer worked with a dozen Palestinian youngsters to prepare the play ‘Croak, the King and a Change in the Weather’ , which first premiered in Theatre Monnot, in Christian East Beirut.
The film then follows the production to the UK where it received standing ovations on Tyneside (including here at The Sage Gateshead), Edinburgh and Liverpool, as the young Palestinians blazed a trail across the country.
The film is preceded by ‘I Married The Angel of The North’, part of a live compilation of contemporary North-East poetry and music which was commissioned by the Beirut theatre as a curtain-raiser for the Palestinian play. Features The Creels and Peter Mortimer.