Doomed By Hope - Essays on Arab Theatre

Informationen zum Autor Eyad Houssami makes and writes about theatre. He studied theatre at Yale University and currently lives in Beirut. He is the author of the play Mama Butterfly . Elias Khoury is a Lebanese writer and public intellectual. He is the author of plays, film scripts, stories, and critical essays, and his twelve novels include Little Mountain, Gate of the Sun, As Though She Were Sleeping and Sinalkol. Klappentext This is a study of performance during revolution and revolt in the Arab world. Addressing the history of Arab theatre, it centres on legacy of the late Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous, whose monumental plays incited audiences to rise up against tyranny decades ago. With writers from Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Kuwait and Yemen, this book includes both discussions and personal narratives, alongside a number of specially commissioned portraits of contemporary Arab theatre artists. Exploring cultural practices - from reading plays in a classroom to performing in a security state and directing in theatres, prisons, and international festivals - it uncovers the flourishing of art in times of revolt. This unique volume assembled by playwright Houssami [is] welcome and necessary... Underlying the volume is a sense of the necessary. This is the power of theater giving voice to the voiceless, whether in the streets of Syria after the 1973 war, in US college theaters experiencing a solo performance about a Palestinian American living in Palestine for a year, or in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. ... remarkably topical and relevant... fascinating. Highly recommended. -- K.J. Wetmore, Jr., CHOICE Zusammenfassung The dramatic! political history of contemporary Arab theatre

Product details

• Authors: Eyad Houssami
• Assisted by: Dalia Khamissy (Photographs), Masrah Ensemble (Editor), Eyad Houssami (Editor), Houssami Eyad (Editor), Khoury Elias (Foreword)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2012
• EAN: 9780745333540
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3354-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 220 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Theory of art, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, ART / General, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, ART / Criticism & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Middle East, The arts, DRAMA / Middle Eastern, Theatre Studies, Religion & politics, Iraq, Palestine, Religion and Politics, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution