In The Spotlight with Dr. Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti

  • January 3, 2025
  • Dr. Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti

The first workshop of the ‘In The Spotlight’ series saw Dr. Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti lead a session on monodrama in contemporary Palestinian theatre. We caught up with her after the workshop to learn more about her practice, as well as the role of theatre in Palestine today…

Changing the Scene

  • November 15, 2024
  • Paul Moclair

The Scenechangers project is positioning theatre exercises in much more of a participatory manner. Furthermore, it is presenting theatre as one method within a bigger toolbox that includes other active-learning and arts-based methods…

Art in Crisis

  • September 24, 2024
  • Rayan Al-Hibta

Theatre brought fun and lightheartedness to the lives of children in South Lebanon, at a time when it was so difficult for them to live a normal childhood…

Behind the Scenes of Cats

  • August 16, 2024
  • Megan McGeough

Despite the many challenges faced by their communities, the ensemble of CATS came together to weave a shared narrative – a tapestry of stories – highlighting and elevating often unheard perspectives…

Theatre as a Tool for Resistance

  • April 29, 2024
  • Hiba Hussein

As a Palestinian refugee who grew up in Beirut after the civil war, I learnt young that fighting the injustices that plague this region is incredibly challenging…

Reflecting on Five Years in Jordan

  • December 15, 2023
  • Lara McIvor

For us this is the power of theatre and play: once its power is unleashed, it resonates far beyond the individual…

Transforming Education Through Play

  • September 11, 2023
  • Carole Fakhreddine

In Lebanon, we are slowly starting to change our approach to learning, but we still have a long way to go…

Lebanon: Living in Darkness

  • August 4, 2023
  • Lama Amine

When we made theatre with children before the explosion, they would create plays about kings, queens and animals. Nowadays, things are different…

Refugee Week: Shifting the Narrative

  • June 22, 2023
  • Eleanor Jacob

At Seenaryo we believe that theatre has the power to transform communities to become more inclusive, more compassionate and more cohesive…