Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Middle Eastern

An anthology of six new plays written in Arabic, published here in English translation. Including five plays selected from over 500 submissions to Masrah Ensemble’s 2021 Open Call and one by Masrah Ensemble’s former playwright-in-residence, these six texts—by Yasser Abu Shaqra, Arzé Khodr, Rim Mejdi, Wael Qaddur, Nasr Sami, and Leila Tubal—represent a diverse array of voices and styles, and push at the limits of theatrical form and public discourse. The volume features an introduction by theater writer/director/academic Hanan Qassab Hassan along with short introductions to the plays...

Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem for the trial of the century. "Forty-nine years ago next Monday a certain Ricardo Klement, living obscurely in Buenos Aires, was identified by a group of Nazi-hunters as the man responsible for arranging the transport of millions of European Jews to the death camps. His true name was Adolf Eichmann. He was smuggled out of the country - illegally, but only diplomatic pedants protested - and in Jerusalem he was tried, found guilty of crimes hitherto thought unimaginable, hanged, cremated and his ashes dropped into the sea. It is all too easy to call such men evil...

A comedy about the Iran-Contra affair. "Heroic ... Sharp ... Wonderfully nuts ... The antic lunacy of a Busby Berkeley routine ... Strand's Ollie North is not just the butt of the play but its suffering hero. He's like a lawbreaker out of Ibsen, maybe a little crazy but with a genuine, shining integrity." -The Washington Post "John Strand's THREE NIGHTS IN TEHRAN is a furiously comic take on the Iran-Contra affair ... Inherently theatrical ... A farce exploring the outer limits of American diplomatic folly ... Strand's stage version of North consciously echoes elements of Othello's...

War rages in the Balkans. While NATO bombs Serbia, the Kosovan Albanians are driven out of their homes. Europe is divided. In homes everywhere, people debate the rights and wrongs of the war. This play reveals the results.

Crossing Jerusalem describes a day in the life of an Israeli family at the beginning of the latest intifada.

The Golem is a children's version of the famous story, exploring what happens when a monster is constructed to defend his community.

Year Zero is a bittersweet satire about Communists, Gaulists, and collaborators in the north of France, 1940s.

Saint Joan sets the heroine against a sweep of world history, culminating in the Parisian National Front rally of 1995.

New writing based on the fables of Kalila wa Dimna, one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Intended originally as a book of the Council for Kings--literally, a -mirror- for princes--these subtle and philosophical animal fables to this day carry immense significance to all sections of Arab and Persian society.

Arabian Nights focuses on seven of the 1,001 tales that Sharazad told her royal husband Shahrayar each morning to stave off her threatened execution. -It's been a long time since I've heard a theatre audience stamp and whistle at a curtain call, but that's precisely how the punters greeted Dominic Cooke's vibrant staging of these classic Eastern folk tales.---Evening Standard

The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. It looks at why good people are capable of doing bad things and asks if love alone can save us.

p> Jan Buttram Full Length, Comedy Chacaters: 2 male, 1 female Interior A hilarious take on a father/daughter relationship, this off beat comedy combines foreign intrigue with down home philosophy. Sally Pound flees a bad marriage in New York and arrives at her parent's home in Texas hoping to borrow money from her brother to pay a debt to gangsters incurred by her husband. Her elderly parents are supposed to be vacationing in Israel, but she is greeted with a shotgun aimed by her irascible father who has been left home because of a minor car accident and is not at all happy to see her. When...

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa. Includes Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria), 603 by Imad Farajin (Palestine), Damage by Kamal Khalladi (Morocco), The House by Arze Khodr (Lebanon), and Egyptian Products by Laila Soliman (Egypt).

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Presents a re-working of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" set in the Middle East. The setting of this version of the "Hamlet" story is a modern Middle-Eastern state whose old king has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, westernised dictator who has married the old king's wife to legitimise his rule, and calls his regime a "new democracy".

"These plays are a cosmos of mindscapes, vast and varied in beauty, theme, style and form... And despite their multiplicity in accents, cultures and nationalities, they have an unyielding collective voice." - Nathalie Handal, from the Introduction

Includes:

Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi
Keffiyeh/Made in China by Dalia Taha
Plan D by Hannah Khalil
Handala by Abdelfattah Abusrour
Territories by Betty Shamieh
603 by Imad Farajin

The first collection of its kind, Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the...

They call it a civil war, but there is nothing civil in this. Nothing civil at all.

They came from Damascus, from Halab, from Banias where the bombs fall day and night and the wounded children look like sleeping angels. Now they live in camps and abandoned buildings in Lebanon or Jordan. Now Syria is just a distant memory, a home forever lost.

This urgent and extraordinary play explores the crisis in Syria through the stories of its two million refugees.

Oh My Sweet Land received its UK premiere at the Young Vic Theatre, London, on 9 April 2014.