A crowd-funding campaign has been launched to bring a Palestinian play from the West Bank to west London.

The Hounslow-Ramallah Twinning Association, a voluntary group fostering links between the two regions, needs to raise £1,948 to bring the experimental parable 48 Minutes for Palestine to the borough for one night only.

Should the appeal be successful, the drama would be presented by the non-profit Ramallah theatre company, ASHTAR Theatre, at Hounslow's Paul Robeson Theatre on June 15. It would be free to attend.

The group's Kickstarter campaign was just over a third of the way to its target as of Thursday (April 2). With 17 days to run, 14 backers had pledged a total of £680.

48 Minutes for Palestine has no words, with the story told entirely through movement and original music.

In an allegory of Israeli-Palestinian relations, it tells of a woman who lives alone until a disheveled stranger walks into her house one day. The couple struggle for space and power as the temperature rises and water supplies run low, with neither willing to leave.

Acclaimed dramatist Caryl Churchill is among those backing the campaign. She said: "I look forward very much to seeing 48 Minutes for Palestine. I recently worked with Riham Isaac in Ramallah and loved her spirit and inventiveness."

Hounslow has been twinned with Ramallah, a small city just north of Jerusalem, since 1988, but the twinning association was formed in 2010 to forge stronger links between the two regions.

The group last year sent two footballers from Brentford FC on a coaching visit to Ramallah and in 2012 brought the Palestinian Olympic team to Hounslow to meet the mayor.

You can support the Kickstarter campaign here. For more about the Hounslow-Ramallah Twinning Association, visit www.hounslow-ramallah.org.