Between the River and the Sea

This play from Palestinian-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid and his writer-director collaborator Isabella Sedlak is an autobiographical work in which he reflects upon his complicated heritage: raised as a Christian-Arab-Palestinian-Israeli kid in Haifa, and now raising two Jewish-Arab-Austrian kids in Berlin (with a custody battle thrown in to boot). Originallly produced by the Maxim Gorky Theater in Berlin, Between the River and the Sea is the only show in the Royal Court’s 2026 Upstairs season to not be a script submitted for last year’s Open Submissions Festival.