Shakespeare in Kabul Shakespeare in Kabul

Shakespeare in Kabul

    • CHF 22.00
    • CHF 22.00

Beschreibung des Verlags

In 2005, a group of actors in Kabul performed Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost to the cheers of Afghan audiences and the raves of foreign journalists. For the first time in years, men and women had appeared onstage together. The future held no limits, the actors believed. In this fast-moving, fondly told and frequently very funny account, Qais Akbar Omar and Stephen Landrigan capture the triumphs and foibles of the actors as they extend their Afghan passion for poetry to Shakespeare’s.Both authors were part of the production. Qais, a journalist, served as Assistant Director and interpreter for Paris actress, Corinne Jaber, who had come to Afghanistan on holiday and returned to direct the play. Stephen, himself a playwright, assembled a team of Afghan translators to fashion a script in Dari as poetic as Shakespeare’s. This chronicle of optimism plays out against the heartbreak of knowing that things in Afghanistan have not turned out the way the actors expected.

GENRE
Biografien und Memoiren
ERSCHIENEN
2012
1. April
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
220
Seiten
VERLAG
Haus Publishing
GRÖSSE
721
 kB

Mehr Bücher von Stephen Landrigan & Qais Akbar Omar

Shakespeare in Kabul Shakespeare in Kabul
2017
A Night in the Emperor's Garden A Night in the Emperor's Garden
2015