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Medium shot of Animal Farm characters in scene2. Wide shot of set3. Close up on pig UPSOUND (Arabic): \"this is the nature of the life we are living.\"4. Medium shot of pig with pan left to horse5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eJenin, West Bank - 23 March 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Medium shot of Animal Farm characters in scene\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide shot of set\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up on pig UPSOUND (Arabic): \"this is the nature of the life we are living.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium shot of pig with pan left to horse\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway to audience\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of fight scene\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nabil al-Raee, Director\u003cbr/\u003e\"This play shows you how are the corrupt, why they are corrupt in the play because they start to talk about me, not we. And we lost we, we don't have we in Palestine. We just have me - I did this, I will do this.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. al-Raee talks to theatre troupe\u003cbr/\u003e9. Actor playing horse gets direction from al-Raee\u003cbr/\u003e10. Medium shot of stage\u003cbr/\u003e11. Medium shot of raven\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Haroon Rashid, actor in Freedom Theatre playing Moses (or Musa in Arabic) the Raven: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Especially here in Palestine, it's like the Palestinian Authority. It's like connecting us with the Israeli people, it's like looking to peace and there are many people killed and they changed. They are not like Abu Amar (Yasser Arafat) was. We see many changes between the first revolution and now. And it's the same. We have many Napoleons, we have many Squealers, we have many Musas (Moses), and many many of these characters in our lives.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of scene\u003cbr/\u003e14. Cutaway to crowd\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Palestinian Audience member (no name given) \u003cbr/\u003e\"There is one in the act (who) says, there is people in this country deserve to live but I say all the people in this country deserve to live. Like all the people in the world, this is our right.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Medium shot of stage\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up on horse with pan left to other horse\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot of pig with zoom in\u003cbr/\u003eGeorge Orwell's 1945 satirical novel \"Animal Farm\" is being performed with a distinctively Palestinian flavour this week at the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp. \u003cbr/\u003eIt is the debut production of the West Bank's only full-time drama school.\u003cbr/\u003eIn scene one of the play, Farmer Jones assassinates the animals' leader. \u003cbr/\u003eIn scene two, the animals _ a few horses, a donkey, a crow, a chicken and some pigs _ rally around a revolutionary pig named Snowball, who leads an uprising against their oppressive master.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile addressing the classic theme of revolutionaries imitating their oppressors, the mere production of Orwell's 'Animal Farm' in the West Bank represents a revolution of sorts. \u003cbr/\u003eThe fact that such a school can raise the curtain in a camp once known for vicious battles with Israeli troops shows how far this part of the West Bank has come in its return to normality. \u003cbr/\u003eThe current political situation affects artistic decisions. \u003cbr/\u003eThe theatre initially selected \"The Lieutenant of Inishmore,\" a satire of armed resistance by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, for the debut production.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the play was shelved after someone smashed the window of car belonging to a member of the theatre. \u003cbr/\u003eThe cast worried that the play's message would be ill-received after Israel's recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, which killed some 1,400 Palestinians.\u003cbr/\u003eSo the theatre chose \"Animal Farm\" as a back-up, even though a Ramallah theatre refused to let the Jenin cast use its facility and a Palestinian cultural foundation declined to provide funding. \u003cbr/\u003eAnimal Farm is a commentary on the Stalin era in pre-World War II Russia. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter banishing farmer Jones, the animals suffer under the increasingly corrupt leadership of a group of pigs, who gradually adopt human habits, like walking upright, wearing suits and drinking alcohol.\u003cbr/\u003eThe story ends when the head pig meets with a human to discuss farm business, the ultimate selling-out of the revolution.\u003cbr/\u003eDirector Nabil al-Raee says the Jenin production explores this original theme, while commenting on Palestinian politics.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This play shows you how are the corrupt, why they are corrupt in the play because they start to talk about me, not we. And we lost we, we don't have we in Palestine. We just have me - I did this, I will do this.\"\u003cbr/\u003eActor Haroon Rashid plays Moses (or Musa in Arabic) the Raven. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says that the play has parallels with modern Palestinian politics. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We see many changes between the first revolution and now. And it's the same. We have many Napoleons, we have many Squealers, we have many Musas (Moses), and many many of these characters in our lives.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe human who comes to talk business at the play's end wears a green army uniform and speaks Hebrew _ a not-so-veiled reference to cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas.\u003cbr/\u003eIsraeli troops and Abbas' security forces work together in their West Bank crackdown on Hamas, the Islamic militant group that seized Gaza by force in June 2007. \u003cbr/\u003eIsrael still controls all of the West Bank, seized in the 1967 Mideast War, while Abbas' forces have  been given greater autonomy in some areas, including Jenin, in the past two years.\u003cbr/\u003eThe director plans to take the play to schools and universities, or bus in audiences from surrounding villages.\u003cbr/\u003eThe drama school, with a first class of 10 students for its three-year programme, opened in September. \u003cbr/\u003eThe play 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