{"id":398,"date":"2012-07-14T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilgrimsofibillin.org\/?p=398"},"modified":"2012-07-14T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T14:44:49","slug":"we-belong-to-the-land-a-one-man-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/we-belong-to-the-land-a-one-man-play\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Belong to the Land&#8221; &#8211; A One Man Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespearean actor and writer <strong>Bruce G. Bradley<\/strong> has created a captivating adaptation of the book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We Belong to the Land<\/span>\u2014the inspirational autobiography of Abuna Elias Chacour. Bradley has presented his 45-minute performance in Wisconsin, California, and Illinois, and is eager for more opportunities to share Abuna Chacour&#8217;s important story and vision. Bradley lives near Madison, WI.<\/p>\n<p>With stunning accuracy, the actor \u201cbecomes\u201d Archbishop Chacour as he tells about working for peace in Israel\/Palestine over the past 45 years. Audiences hear how Abuna (&#8220;Father&#8221; in Arabic) Elias Chacour, against all odds, established the multi-cultural Mar Elias Educational Institutions in Ibillin, where Christians, Jews, Muslims and Druze are educated without regard to religion or ethnic background.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from these dramatic performances will support the Mar Elias Schools, part of Archbishop Chacour\u201fs ongoing effort to \u201cBuild Peace on Desktops.\u201d A time for questions will follow each performance. Interestingly, a few questions after every performance so far reveal that some in the audiencee forget that Bruce is an actor portraying Abuna Chacour. The questions are addressed as if to Abuna himself.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, or to discuss sponsoring Bruce Bradley&#8217;s dramatic reading in your area, please call Joan Deming at 608-235-1046.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespearean actor and writer Bruce G. Bradley has created a captivating adaptation of the book We Belong to the Land\u2014the inspirational autobiography of Abuna Elias Chacour. Bradley has presented his 45-minute performance in Wisconsin, California, and Illinois, and is eager for more opportunities to share Abuna Chacour&#8217;s important story and vision. Bradley lives near Madison, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/we-belong-to-the-land-a-one-man-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;We Belong to the Land&#8221; &#8211; A One Man Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,7,6,8,9],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuna-elias-chacour","tag-bruce-bradley","tag-drama","tag-elias-chacour","tag-palestinian-christian","tag-pilgrims-of-ibillin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}