Date/Time
Date(s) - 10 Nov 2015
6:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location
Jerry H. Labowitz Theater for the Performing Arts
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Border Crossings: War, Myth, and Identity in
Intercultural Performance
Tuesday, November 10
6:30 pm
The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
1 Washington Place
This public talk by internationally renowned writer and director Sulayman Al Bassam will cover the themes, texts, and compositional process that inform his work, with reference to The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy, The Icarus Cycle, and Al Bassam’s forthcoming play Petrol Station.
Sulayman Al Bassam is a Kuwait-born playwright and theater director who founded Zaoum Theatre in London in 1996. In 2002, with dramaturge Georgina Van Welie, he co-founded the SABAB Theatre, the Arabic arm of the company. Often controversial in content and experimental in form, Al Bassam’s themes include explorations of war, identity, and sexual politics with a focus on the contemporary Arab World and the interstitial spaces between the Arab-Islamic world and the West. Al Bassam’s published plays are The Al Hamlet Summit (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2007), Kalila wa Dimna, The Mirror for Princes (Oberon Books, 2006), and The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy (Methuen/Bloomsbury, 2014).