Borders is a VAULT Festival 2022 Transferred Show
“Looking for now?” – Borders
Boaz and George meet on Grindr. One is in Israel, the other in Lebanon. They’re both horny but can’t meet physically. Something in their conversation excites them both. The distance, the “enemy”, the foreignness, the experience of being gay in another culture. They both fill a void the other has, becoming each other’s secret love. As they decide to meet in Berlin, the border between the countries heats up, and they’re forced to make difficult decisions.
“I can’t imagine that we’ll never see each other. I mean, we’re so close.” – Borders
In her directorial debut, Neta Gracewell directs the award-winning play Borders by writer Nimrod Danishman, with a team of queer, Middle Eastern and international theatre makers. Inspired by a real encounter between the Israeli writer and a Lebanese man on Grindr, Borders is a story about two people, never meant to meet or connect, who try to form an intimate relationship against all odds.
Scripted very delicately and movingly with a touch of humour, it addresses the many complexities of the Middle East reality in which the geopolitical circumstances we are born into dictate the people we can naturally connect with. With critically acclaimed productions of the play in the US, Germany and Israel, and following a UK premier at Birmingham’s Shout Festival in November 2021, this engaging story is finally introduced to London audiences, with a team that embodies border crossing in their very practice.
Junction Theatre & Performance is a new theatre company focused on producing translated plays from the Middle East in the UK, giving centre stage to voices and narratives that rarely receive it.
https://www.junctiontheatre.com/borders
15, 16, 17 February 7.30pm VAULT Festival 2022 Transferred Show
Drayton Arms Theatre, 153 Old Brompton Rd, London SW5 0LJ
