Isabella Sedlak and Yousef Sweid - Between the River and the Sea (2025)
- 10/12/2025, from 18.00 to 19.00
- 10/12/2025, from 20.30 to 21.30
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Palestinian-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid explores a life between different cultures and narratives. He combines personal anecdotes with political reflection, recalls his childhood as an Arab Christian child in a Jewish kindergarten, and offers humorous perspectives on everyday family life in Berlin. How are Sweid's Jewish-Arab children supposed to find their way in a world where their ‘intermediate position’ seems to be not a bridge but an invalid position? The evening is a plea to listen to unheard stories and to accept complexity and contradictions.
Isabella Sedlak (1981, Wiener Neustadt, Austria) is a director and author working at the intersection of theatre, film and performance. Her work reflects on social structures and questions power relations, gender issues and historical narratives. Her productions have been shown at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin; Schauspiel Dortmund; ITZ, Tübingen; Theater Drachengasse, Vienna, and Werk X-Petersplatz, Vienna, among others. She also writes screenplays and essays from a feminist and intersectional perspective. Sedlak lives in Berlin and Vienna.
Yousef Sweid (born 1976 in Haifa, Israel) is an actor and theatre maker. He is a founding member of the Arab-Hebrew Jaffa Theatre and has been working with directors such as Yael Ronen since 2006. In addition to appearances at theatres such as Schaubühne, Berlin, and Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Sweid has also appeared in film and television productions such as Walk on Water, The Bubble, Homeland, Game of Thrones, Unorthodox and Totenfrau. In his own projects, he explores the intersections between personal biography and political identity. Sweid lives in Berlin.
English language with German surtitles
Admission: € 20,00 | Reduced: € 16,00
Venue: Dom im Berg, Schloßbergplatz, 8010 Graz
More information at: steirischerherbst.at/en
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