May 12–14, 2016

Leeds Theatre

A part of Writing is Live 2016

Written by Dalia Taha ’16 MFA

Directed by Caitlin Ryan O’Connell ’16 MFA

Mariam returns with her son Jawwad to the town where she grew up. But, once there, she is faced with the bizarre changes that have occurred and those that are yet to come. A story about the erasure of memory and landscape, There Is No One Between You And Me reminds us of the ways in which the buried past always manages to seep through, out, and up into the present.

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Dalia Taha ’16 MFA is a Palestinian poet and playwright. She was born in Berlin in 1986 but grew up in Ramallah-Palestine. Her first play Keffiyeh/Made in China was produced by the Flemish Royal Theater and A.M. Qattan Foundation. The play was premiered in Brussels in 2012, then brought to Palestine where it toured seven Palestinian cities across the west bank. The play was given a staged reading in July 2013 at the Mosaic room in London, as part of the Shubbak Festival: a window on contemporary Arab Culture. In addition, two scenes of the play where staged at the Mohamed V theatre in Rabat-Morocco. The play was published in four languages, Arabic, English, French and Flemish. In 2013, Dalia was awarded the Young Artist grant to travel to Kinshasa and Hanover to attend theatre festivals in the two cities. In addition to plays, Taha writes poetry and fiction. She has published two collections of poetry, and one novel. Her poems have been translated into English, French, German, and Swedish.  Her new play was just produced at the Royal Court in London. Taha graduated from Birzeit University in 2009 with a degree in Architecture.