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STORY: JORDAN / SHAKESPEARE SYRIA REFUGEE
TRT: 2.32
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 26-27 MARCH 2014, ZA’ATARI REFUGE CAMP, JORDAN
1. Wide shot, Wiam walking to the Shakespeare tent in Za’atari
2. Various shots, Wiam kneeling down next to a character playing her dead father and putting her hand on his forehead
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wiam Yousef Al-Ammari, Syrian refugee:
“There are three daughters, two are hypocrites and I am the honest one, Cordelia. And Regan and Goneril, they are liars, they want to take my inheritance and take from King Lear.”
4. Various shots, scene where King Lear casts Cordelia away
5. Various shots, Cordelia leaving stage, looking sad
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yousef Al-Ammari, Wiam’s father:
“They chose my daughter Wiam and she went with them for a rehearsal for a day. Then she liked acting and they liked her at the same time.”
7. Pan left, King Lear and Wiam leaving to go to the performance
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wiam Yousef Al-Ammari, Syrian refugee:
“I’m happy. I’m ready to go to the performance so I can be on TV.”
9. Wide shot, Cordelia and King Lear scene
10. Med shot, Cordelia
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nawar Bulbul, Syrian Actor, Director, Shakespeare in Za’atari:
“I believe that if Wiam continues in this field academically, she will be one of the most important names in the world.”
12. Med shot, audience listening to Cordelia’s lines
13. Med shot, Cordelia as she holds King Lear’s dead body
14. Med shot, actors walking past Cordelia as audience cheers
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wiam Yousef Al-Ammari, Syrian refugee:
“My two parts were very nice. I liked my role a lot, but I don’t know I feel overwhelmed. It’s the first time I participate in a play. And we were successful. We can’t believe that we were successful.”
16. Med shot, Wiam and other actors bowing
Wiam Yousef Al-Ammari is a 12-year-old refugee from Deraa in southwestern Syria and stopped going to school after fleeing Syria more than a year ago.
In the Za’atari Camp in Jordan where she lives, she discovered Shakespeare.
Wiam plays a starring role in “Shakespeare in Za’atari” which has inspired her to become an actress.
Today she’s Cordelia, King Lear’s youngest daughter.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wiam Yousef Al-Ammari, Syrian refugee:
“There are three daughters, two are hypocrites and I am the honest one, Cordelia. And Regan and Goneril, they are liars, they want to take my inheritance and take from King Lear.”
The idea behind the project is to help children through drama, Shakespearean drama.
Wiam is one of eighty budding actors taking part.
In this scene, King Lear casts her out of the kingdom.
She dared to tell him that she loves him as much as any daughter loves her father, not more, not less.
Her father worries about a long commute as there’s no school close by. But he is a proud father.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yousef Al-Ammari, Wiam’s father:
“They chose my daughter Wiam and she went with them for a rehearsal for a day. Then she liked acting and they liked her at the same time.”
There is a chance Wiam will be able to go to school soon.
But the lure of the stage has caught her imagination.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wiam Yousef Al-Ammari, Syrian refugee:
“I’m happy. I’m ready to go to the performance so I can be on TV.”
So the idea of becoming a schoolteacher has been replaced.
But, is she good enough? Wiam says the audience will decide.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nawar Bulbul, Syrian Actor, Director, Shakespeare in Za’atari:
“I believe that if Wiam continues in this field academically, she will be one of the most important names in the world.”
The audience loves her and she is thrilled.
CLIP: Wiam Yousef Al-Ammari, Syrian refugee, Cordelia, Shakespeare in Za’atari (Arabic):
“My two parts were very nice. I liked my role a lot, but I don’t know; I feel overwhelmed. It’s the first time I participate in a play, and we were successful. We can’t believe that we were successful.”
The play doesn’t stop here. There are plans to take Shakespeare in Za’atari to the Jordanian capital.
