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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Gloria Oladipo

‘During wartime, you also do laundry’: a new play brings the experience of war in Gaza to the US

Woman on stage in front of brick wall
Khawla Ibraheem in A Knock on the Roof at the New York Theatre Workshop. Photograph: Joan Marcus

“How far can you run in five minutes?”

It’s a critical question the actor and writer Khawla Ibraheem asks the audience during her solo show A Knock on the Roof. The play follows Miriam, played by Ibraheem, a young mother training to survive an Israeli bombing in Gaza.

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