DANNY BOYLE: So this is...
So this is an extraordinary kind of, like, puzzle really, I suppose.
Because although its origins are prestigious, you know,
he's obviously...
..an incredible artist, its purpose and its outcome is unclear.
It's really just like, in a way, the most obvious thing
in the world is what he wants us to do, which is to stage
a nativity play in Bethlehem.
What school teacher wouldn't think that was a good idea,
you know, for your school play?
You think, "Oh, let's go and do it actually in Bethlehem."
And so I think it's clear that, being the artist that he is,
he wants that context, the pure context,
to be not so pure, I would think.
Because obviously his work is pictorial and two-dimensional,
it's the placing of it that obviously gives it such context.
Here we go.
It's a celebration as well as having some provocation in it,
but I always imagine that the provocation would be
the context of it being made here
and how it was made in the shadow of the wall.
It isn't going to be just like a school play.
There will be a function of the evening
that is beyond the automatic goodwill of a school play.
It'll be very interesting to see how that resonates,
to see what ripples come out from that, really.
THEY SPEAK ENGLISH
THEY SING 'GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO'
THEY REPEAT IN OWN LANGUAGE
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, children and any angels.
SHE TRANSLATES IN OWN LANGUAGE
HE SPEAKS ENGLISH
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
THEY SING 'JINGLE BELLS' IN OWN LANGUAGE
# Jingle bells, jingle bells
# Jingle all the way
# Oh, what fun is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh
# Jingle bells, jingle bells
# Jingle all the way
# Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse sleigh! #
SHE SPEAKS ENGLISH
MUSIC: POWER by Kanye West
KANYE WEST: # I'm living in that 21 century
# Doing something mean to it
# Do it better than anybody you ever seen do it
# Screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it... #
HER PHONE BEEPS
# No one man should have all that power
# The clock's ticking, I just count the hours
# Stop tripping, I'm tripping off the power
# 21st century schizoid man. #
Huh?!
ORGAN PLAYS, THEY SING IN OWN LANGUAGE
# Whoa
CROWD: # Whoa, whoa
# Oh, oh, oh
# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
# Oh, oh, oh
# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
# Oh, oh, oh
# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
# Oh, oh, oh
# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh. #
The king is born in Bethlehem!
THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE
HE SPEAKS ENGLISH
The king is born!
HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
THEY SPEAK ENGLISH
THEY HUM TUNE OF 'SILENT NIGHT'
CHORUS, IN OWN LANGUAGE: # Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born Jesus is born
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
# Hallelujah!
# Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
# Hallelujah! #
UP-TEMPO: # Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born Jesus is born
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born Jesus is born
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born Jesus is born
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah!
# Jesus is born
# Hallelujah! #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
ELECTRICAL BUZZING
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
CHEERING
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Greig
Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!
Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!
SOLDIERS REPEAT
Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!
SOLDIERS REPEAT
THEY ALL REPEAT
SOLDIERS REPEAT
Rargh!
Huh?!
Yalla!
Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!
Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!
Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!
Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Yes!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: Jingle Bells
THEY SING 'JINGLE BELLS' IN OWN LANGUAGE
MUSIC: Jazzy version of Silent Night
I'm very emotional, to be honest. I can't...
Can't speak. I'm speechless, actually.
It was great, it was really good. And I tell you what was amazing...
You didn't know whether any Palestinians would turn up,
because they don't want to really sit by the wall.
But we overcame that, didn't we?
It was a real kind of joyous thing, I think.
It felt like a very intimate show as well.
All coming from the heart of the community.
I'll never forget that sight of them COVERED in snow at the front!
But they were as happy as pie. They were so...
You could see they were enraptured by it, weren't they?
The audience, yeah. Oh, it was just...
They were just like this... Yeah. ..looking at everything.
That was so, so cool. That was really nice.
What I was pleased about - ALL of them performed.
Some of them, like, I know that they're very shy -
they just, like, probably wouldn't think about acting.
But they're, like, very happy they got to do it.
When Elissa starts to sing... Yeah. Oh, my God.
..it's just like... It's beautiful, isn't it?
I wanted to cry. I know.
It's just like, "This girl needs to sing and perform," you know?
THEY LAUGH
That's what I wanted in this show.
For all of us to feel, like...
..proud and to have this feeling that we are...
We are doing this... Even in spite of this situation, you know,
we're living here, we have this amazing energy
and soul and talent and art. Yeah, yeah.
That's what remains at the end of the day. Yeah.
Yay!
SPRAY CAN HISSES
CHILDREN SING 'JINGLE BELLS' IN OWN LANGUAGE
MUSIC: Electric version of O Little Town Of Bethlehem