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I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid To Tell You

The Phoenix Theatre Annex
San Francisco, CA

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I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid To Tell You

2 NIGHTS ONLY: Friday, July 25 and Saturday, July 26 at 8pm
SNEAK PREVIEW

Jennifer is trying to get back home, but its a lot more complicated than that. The guy sitting next to her in the taxi is smoking cigarettes, but won't roll the window down because he doesn't want to let the tear gas in. The 70 year old grandmother on her other side wants to know why her Arabic is so bad, why she doesn't wax her arms and why at the age of 28 she is not yet married. It's 100 degrees outside, and she's been in this taxi for 2 hours even though it should have been a 20 minute ride. And all she can focus on are the soldiers on the one side of the road shooting rubber bullets through traffic at the kids hurling stones on the other side of the road. Wait, why did she want to come to Palestine?

Oh yes that's right, sick and tired of the unsolicited discussions, debates and disagreements about her identity and her opinions about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Jennifer decides to go to Palestine and figure it out for herself. Join her on American and Palestinian soil on auditions, bad dates, and across military checkpoints as she navigates the thorny question of "where are you from?", and defines for herself what being a single, Christian Palestinian-American woman really means. Apparently it means a lot of comedy.

Jajeh & Co. is proud to present a work in progress performance of Jennifer Jajeh's groundbreaking solo show "I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You". Directed by W. Kamau Bell.

See it here before its debut at the New York International Fringe Festival from August 8-24, 2008. www.fringenyc.org

There are only 2 SF shows scheduled. Ticket prices are sliding scale from $10-40. These are fundraiser performances to send the cast and crew to NYC for the Fringe performances.