Zoukak Theater

We created Zoukak in 2006 as a non-hierarchical structure, dedicated to theatre practice as a social and political involvement, with a belief in theatre as a space for common reflection and in collectivity as a position against marginalizing systems. We position ourselves outside the dominating discourses in our context through direct action within communities. 2006 also witnessed the Israeli war on Lebanon and the displacement of two million Lebanese from the South, and in 2007 all of the population of Naher el Bared Palestinian refugees camp moved to Beddawi Camp, and in both cases we found ourselves in these locations making psycho-social theatre interventions through a special approach to drama therapy. Since then we tested and developed theatrical interventions in emergency situations and beyond, working with incarcerated youths, children with multiple disabilities, women subjected to domestic violence, migrant domestic workers and other marginalized fractions of our society, while continuing to work with people affected directly and indirectly by war.

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