City Ate Itself + Dear, Comrade

It's a dinner party. The conversations are as inane as ever. But come on, with everything that's happening right now - how could you talk about anything else? Or slice the bread well, eat this soup right, with everything that's happening right now? How could you not call for war, actually, with everything that's happening right now? Wait — At this dinner, city ate itself in the last summer in peace. "City Ate Itself" is a theatre show, there is an entertainer at this dinner, and they give you poetry and despair, and stories of her granddad experiencing the beginning and ending of the beginning and ending of the world, I mean, war. And there's all the voices that call for it to happen again, even though it is already happening. But also it's a dinner party, though how could anyone eat, with everything that's happening right now? __________ "Dear, Comrade" is a live radio play that came out of the student intifada of Amsterdam. The student intifada was a movement initiated by students across the world who occupied their universities, set up encampments, and demanded their schools cut ties with Israeli institutions after Israel intensified its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza after October 7, 2024. Two (or more) comrades talk on stage, unclear whether they represent one or two (or more) people, whether this is internal or external. They analyse the protests of the past year for a free Palestine in Amsterdam, they share their feelings, slipping in and out of politics and themselves. With and against politics and themselves. In and out of history and against. They stand up and fall apart on stage, like they did on the street.