KEEPERS OF INFINITE SPACE
Saeed is a bookseller in Nablus. His father Khalil is a property developer. They’re just an ordinary family, quietly building a new Palestine. Until one day Saeed is arrested and thrown into gaol. As his future disappears, Saeed finds that the answer to his problems may lie in the past, and in the secrets his father has kept from him…
Since the Israeli occupation, Palestine has become a nation of prisons. Up to 40% of the male population have been detained under military orders. Virtually every family has seen at least one relative put behind bars, and entire generations have grown up facing the prospect of the cell, Keepers Of Infinite Space expores the political prisoners a key tool of the Israeli occupation.
📍UK: The Park Theatre
PRODUCER
Chris Foxon
WRITTEN BY
Omar El-Khairy with contributions from Caroline Rooney
DIRECTOR
Zoe Lafferty
DRAMATURG
Carissa Hope Lynch
PERFORMED BY
Philip Correia, Edmund Kingsley, Cornelius Macarthy, Hilton McRae, Laura Prior, Sirine Saba, Patrick Toomey, John Wark
TEAM
SET DESIGN
Philip Lindley
COSTUME DESIGN
Susan Kulkarni
LIGHTING DESIGN
Johanna Town
MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN
Richard Hammarton
FIGHT DIRECTOR
Tim Klotz
CASTING DIRECTOR
Emily Jones