The Real Stories of Gaza

Created under commission from the London Palestine Film Festival, Elias Matar's haunting yet hopeful A Grain Of Sand runs at the Arcola Theatre in January, an homage to the innocent children persevering through the face of unimaginable hardship in Gaza, never losing sight of the light at the end of the tunnel. An adaptation of the real stories from Leila Boukarim and Asaf Luzon's compilation A Million Kites: Testimonies and Poems from the Children of Gaza, the production stars Sarah Agha bringing the character of Renad to life in this moving one-woman show.

What Is A Grain Of Sand About?

Bringing together Palestinian folk traditions with the real-life eyewitness accounts from children in modern day Gaza, the story centres around Renad, a Palestinian child with a perilous journey in front of her, in a search of her family and the mythical Phoenix known as "Anqaa". Armed solely with the tales her grandparents told her and her own imaginative mind, the play is a vision of modern day war through the eyes of an innocent young girl caught up in it.