The Scotsman Fringe First Awards week two - The Horse of Jenin - video Dailymotion

The Scotsman Fringe First Awards week two - The Horse of Jenin

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00:00This is Awa, who is the writer and performer in Horse of Janine, which has just won a Fringe

00:10first award. Can you tell me a little bit about the show and the interesting history

00:15behind the idea of the Horse of Janine? Well, the Horse of Janine is a statue of a

00:19horse that was built in Janine from the rubble, destroyed cars, bombed cars during an invasion

00:26that happened in Janine in 2002. So we built that statue and then 20 years later, after

00:33it stood for 20 years, an Israeli army bulldozer came and bulldozer it, took it away. So the

00:40story is about that statue and me growing up around that statue as a child, as a student,

00:46as a lover, as an artist who's willing, as a teenager who's willing to be an artist.

00:53So it's a story from Palestine, Janine in the West Bank, to tell the world about how

00:58it looks to live, how it looks like living in Palestine.

01:02Right. And how has it been performing that at the Fringe? How has it felt? It must have

01:06been quite an emotional experience.

01:08Well, I think it's a very privilege to be here, so you can share the story with a lot

01:13of international audiences and people get it on a really international scale. So it's

01:18amazing. And we're selling out and people are understanding the story. People are, uh,

01:25understand the reality of the Palestinians. And that's what we are aiming for as Palestinians

01:32is also to break the stereotype about us as Palestinians. You know what I mean? So that's

01:37why we have a story like The Horse of Janine that brings a humor, details of the daily

01:42life that any human around the world can connect with. So it's going well, amazing. People

01:48are, everything is going good, great responses. Most of the shows, we are sold out. We won

01:54the Fringe first. What else do we want? Yeah?

01:57That's great. Thanks so much. Thank you. Thank you so much.