Anqa: The Story of the Company
Between late 2022 and early 2023, a group of Italian operators from Progetto REC.Palestina traveled to the Gaza Strip to found the Anqa Theater Company alongside local youth. Together, they created the production All That’s Left to Me (a title paraphrasing Ghassan Kanafani’s All That’s Left to You).
The play premiered at Ayyam Al Masrah (Theatre Day Productions) in Gaza City on January 7, 2023. Inspired by the Odyssey, it served as a metaphor for an infinite journey—the painful narrative of Palestine, a land where refugees cannot return and from which the youth cannot leave.
About our new project: Palestinians are your eyes
The reading gathers six texts written by Gazan authors of the Anqa company. They are heterogeneous narratives, blending raw realism and allegory, offering a pluralistic testimony of life in the Gaza Strip, marked by years of segregation. For those living through the horror, writing becomes poiesis: a space of freedom where pain is transfigured into living words.
The initiative stems from the urgent need to tell the tragedy of a people beyond the filters of propaganda. If bombs prevent Gazan actors from stepping onto physical stages, nothing can stop their stories. The project, whose title pays homage to the poet Mahmoud Darwish, aspires to become a collective memory and a bridge between distant worlds.
