In highlighting ASHTAR theatre’s The Gaza Monologues project, this article examines the role played by documentary theatre to witness, remember and make visible Palestinian voices. Through personal testimonies by young writers Mahmoud Balaoui, Amjad Abu Yasin, and Heba Daoud, the monologues bear witness in a time of media silence. As international legal frameworks refuse to recognise Palestinian lives, we argue that The Gaza Monologues serve as a counter-archive documenting the testimonies of a population living under occupation, siege and genocide. Performed worldwide since 2010, The Gaza Monologues transforms theatre into a vehicle for truth-telling, global solidarity and visible accountability in the face of ongoing erasure.
Ali et al. (2025) studied this question.