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Theatre for Everybody (Gaza) and Az Theatre (London) are creating and producing a new Arabic version of Tolstoy's War and Peace in Gaza. " The epic framework of Tolstoy's great romantic philosophical novel can open up contemporary and historic events and shed new light on the nature of conflict, individual destiny and what peace can be. Of course things have changed since Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812! But what exactly is different?" In London we are collaborating on the development of the production through a series of public live video link-ups with Gaza. Eventually, we plan to show a live performance of this production from Gaza via 'livestream'. Theatre for Everybody will be making a presentation after a two-week workshop on that day in Gaza. And in London we will be linking up live with that event. In addition we have invited writers, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Caryl Churchill, Ahmed Masoud and Haifa Zangana, to write contemporary responses to Tolstoy's War and Peace. These and scenes from War and Peace will be read by a company of celebrated actors including David Calder, Jennie Stoller and Harriet Walter.