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Palestine Comedy Club (12A)
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT
Opening Times
| Season (2 Apr 2026) |
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Prices
Ticket Prices
Standard £9.50
Matinees £7.50
Over 66 £8.25
25 & Under, Students, AUP Staff, Budget (unwaged/ low income) £4.50
Friends 10% discount and £6.50 on Tuesdays.
Free tickets are available for Companions, Personal Assistants or Carers accompanying customers who are Disabled and/or customers who have a CEA card. Click here for more information.
Online bookings: add £1.50 booking fee per transaction. This fee helps to pay for maintaining and operating the website and booking system (this fee is waived for Members).
Where applicable please produce proof of eligibility when collecting a ticket.
About us
Dir. Alaa Aliabdallah, Palestine / UK, 2025, 96 mins. In English and Arabic with English subtitles.
What's funny about life under occupation? Palestine Comedy Club is a rollercoaster road-movie that follows six Palestinian stand-up comedians from Haifa, Ramallah, Jenin, Hebron and the Golan Heights who devise and tour a stand-up comedy show exploring the unlikely, often dark humour that circles the complex question of Palestinian identity.
There is no tradition of regular comedy clubs in Palestine and communities are divided by walls, fences and checkpoints that create major disparities in culture and quality of life between one town and another. As such, developing a comedy show that can speak to these very different audiences is almost impossible and the comedians face many challenges in earning comic license and connecting with their fellow Palestinians across the divides.
Despite the cultural and security challenges of touring six Palestinian comedians - all with different travel permissions - across checkpoints and borders to six theatres in Palestine and Israel, audiences flock to the shows and the tour gains momentum through increasing public demand. Word spreads internationally and they are invited to London for a series of gigs starting, tragically, on October 7th, 2023. Just as war breaks out at home, the comedians prepare to perform in English for the first time to an increasingly conflicted British public. Suddenly, the mission to connect with audiences with thoughtful humanity becomes an existential imperative.
Palestine Comedy Club is a quest to find joy in the tragedy of Palestinian life, and create connection against the odds through a common love of laughter.
Image credits: Alaa Aliabdallah (Regash). Featuring: Alaa Shehada, Diana Sweity, Khalil Al Batran, Alaa Aliabdallah.
