One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers.
Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the...
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Leban...
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a ...
From a major novelist of the Arab world comes a frank, funny and fearless story about two women looking for love, set in Italy, Lebanon and London Best friends Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera. Now grown up, successful and independent, their adolescent tribulations in Lebanon are far behind them - but the problems of love, sex and family spring eternal. Yvonne doesn't know what she's doing wrong, either there or back in London - she seems to spend her time waiting for the right man to come along and not leave again just as quickly. Huda has no problems in this...
From a major novelist of the Arab world comes a frank, funny and fearless story about two women looking for love, set in Italy, Lebanon and London ...
