Oud Player on the Tel

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Join us at Cottiers for a one-of performance of Oud Player on the Tel! A play about possibility, friendship, desperation and the search for a home.

About Oud Player on the Tel

This piece, written by Tom Block from the International Human Rights Arts Movement and directed by Jesica Garrou, aims to tell a story of the heart around the Nakba, as well as the Jewish motivation/desperation after the end of World War II. Although very sensitive to the Palestinian narrative, it also shows how the Jewish people were “hanging by a thread” at that time, and points out that the British and, to a lesser extent America, played a role in beginning this ongoing conflict. The piece aims to educate, as well as open new doorways of understanding in a situation desperately in need of it.

The work is presented by the International Human Rights Art Movement, whose foundational values are Beauty as a fundamental creative valu; sincerity and vulnerability of presentation (no anger or finger pointing, which only stifles conversation); celebration of diversity and opening doorways of engagement between people who are in disagreement.

Oud Player on the Tel grows out of more than two decades of Tom Block’s work at the forefront of the Palestinian-Israeli peace movement. He published Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity (exploring the Islamic mystical influence on Jewish spirituality) in the USA and Turkey in 2010. He published a Jewish-Sufi quest novel which grew out of this research, The Fool Returns. He was one of two invited Jewish thinkers at the only interfaith conference ever held by al-Azhar University, Cairo)Oud Player on the Tel grows out of more than two decades of Tom Block’s work at the forefront of the Palestinian-Israeli peace movement. He published Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity (exploring the Islamic mystical influence on Jewish spirituality) in the USA and Turkey in 2010. He published a Jewish-Sufi quest novel which grew out of this research, The Fool Returns. He was one of two invited Jewish thinkers at the only interfaith conference ever held by al-Azhar University, Cairo).

This presentation of “Oud Player on the Tel” includes five of the original cast members, who premiered the piece in New York City in November 2024, as well as the original director, Jesica Garrou and two local actors.

The play is part of the Fringe Programme of events around the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating.

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Oud Player on the Tel

Join us at Cottiers for a one-of performance of Oud Player on the Tel! A play about possibility, friendship, desperation and the search for a home.

About Oud Player on the Tel

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