“Maggor added over email that Hadyar’s U.S. visa had been approved, so the playwright will be joining the final week of rehearsals as well as the production. “
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The Afterlife of Ghassan Kanafani
“[A] Canadian teacher has been suspended for giving a speech in which she called the assassinated Palestinian writer a martyr.”
Sunday Submissions: Microtheatre in Translation
“Submissions should be of 8-10 pages in length and must be received by August 31, 2016. “
Bashar Murkus and the Making of Independent Palestinian Theater in Haifa
“This desire underlines a central challenge impeding the development of Palestinian theater in Israel – as it is, schools offer theater training almost entirely in Hebrew. “
‘Queens of Syria,’ a Play About Civil War, Touring Eight Cities in England and Scotland
“In film and on stage, the women courageously explore parallels between the ancient Greek tragedy and the catastrophe of today’s civil war.”
An ‘Untapped Thirst for Contemporary International Drama in Translation’?
“Was mine a legitimate interest in their plays as dramatic literature? Or was it a newfangled fascination with the recent events of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ and a taste for the exotic?”
Arabic Shakespeares: From Theatre to TV to YouTube
There should be a longer piece on the Arab and Arabic Shakespeare tradition appearing today in Al Araby Al Jadeed: Aspirationally, it begins: It was 1608 when the crew of the Red Dragon, under the leadership of Capt. William Keeling, set down on… Read More ›
Digital Hats, Analog Ambitions: Staging Hassan Blasim
“The open war that ‘The Digital Hats Game’ hackers are fighting is both one of endless and borderless possibilities and one where they also expose themselves to uninvited invasions.”
‘Our Lot Is To Hope’: Revisiting Syrian Playwright Saadallah Wannous’ World Theatre Day Message
“Our lot is to hope, and what happens today cannot be the end of time.”
Coming in Time for #Shakespeare400: Four Arab Hamlet Plays
The collection also includes an autobiographical sketch by Mahmoud Aboudoma, “Gamlet” is Russian for “Hamlet.”
Saturday Submissions: ‘Play to Voices’
“Plays must be written or adapted for radio.”
New Theatre: ‘The Several Beheadings of Ashraf Fayadh’
“I started thinking about Ashraf Fayadh, particularly the event that lead to his eventual incarceration, namely going to a cafe to watch a football game and ending up in a heap of trouble. What if that day repeated over and over?”
