The Bridge review – a funny, furious odyssey through occupation
Assembly George Square studios, Edinburgh Writer and actor Alaa Shehada turns a simple bus trip from the West Bank into a vivid tale of bureaucracy, humiliation and resistance It is the simplicity of the task that gives this story heft.
Recalling his formative years in the West Bank, actor and writer Alaa Shehada is asked by his mother to go on a bus journey that would take a couple of hours in any other part of the world.
His mission is to deliver a plastic jerry can filled with the family’s home-pressed olive oil to his aunt in Jordan.
His obstacle is the 180m crossing point known variously as the Dignity Bridge, the Allenby Bridge and the King Hussein Bridge, depending on your political standpoint.
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