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A Night in the Emperor's Garden: A True Story of Hope and Resilience in Afghanistan de Qais Akbar Omar

A Night in the Emperor's Garden: A True Story of Hope and Resilience in Afghanistan

Autor Qais Akbar Omar, Stephen Landrigan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2015
In 2005, everything seemed possible in Afghanistan. The Taliban was gone. A new government had been elected. A cultural renaissance was energizing the country.

An actress visiting from Paris casually proposed to some Afghan actors in Kabul: Why not put on a play? The challenges were huge. It had been thirty years since men and women had appeared on stage together in Afghanistan. Was the country ready for it? Few Afghan actors had ever done theater. Did they even know how? They had performed only in films and television dramas.

Still, a company of actors gathered—among them a housewife, a policewoman, and a street kid turned film star. With no certainty of its outcome, they set out on a journey that would have life-changing consequences for all of them, and along the way lead to A Night in the Emperor’s Garden.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781910376126
ISBN-10: 1910376124
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 10 color plates
Dimensiuni: 133 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing

Notă biografică

Qais Akbar Omar is the author of A Fort of Nine Towers, which has been published in over twenty languages, and has written for the New York Times and the Atlantic. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Boston University and was a 2014–15 Scholars at Risk Fellow at Harvard University. Stephen Landrigan is a former journalist for the Washington Post and BBC Radio. He lives in Massachusetts, where he tends a small orchard near Boston. His play Pan Beaters won first prize in London Weekend Television’s Play on Stage Awards in 1989, and his dramatization of V. S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street has been staged in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin.

Cuprins

Author’s Note
Naw Ruz. The New Day
Kabul March 2005.

A Night in the Emperor’s Garden
A Gathering of Players
Kabul. March 2005.
A World of Possibilities
Kabul. March 2005.
Selecting a Play
Paris. April 2005.
Making the Script
Kabul. May and June 2005.
Casting the Boys
Kabul. May 2005.
Settling In
Kabul. April 2005.
Casting the Girls
Kabul. Marches 2005.
Searching for Marina
Kabul. June 2005.
Rehearsals, Act One
Kabul. June 2005
Rehearsal, Act Two
Kabul. July 2005.
Tea with Shakespeare
Kabul. June and July 2005.
The Meaning of Love
Kabul. June 2005
Behind the Scenes
Kabul. June 2005.
Rehearsals, Act Three
Kabul. August 2005.
“This Theater of Heaven”
Kabul. August 2005.
Exits and Entrances
Kabul. August 2005.
Expulsion of the Russians
Kabul. August 2005.
Performance
Kabul. 31 August 2005.
The Queen’s Palace
Kabul. 4 September 2005.
A Night in the Emperor’s Garden
Kabul. 5 September 2005.

“The Scene Begins to Cloud”
Encores
Kabul. September 2005-April 2006.
Mazar-e-Sharif
Mazar-e-Sharif. May 2006.
Herat
Herat. May 2006.

Ten Years After
Ten Years After
2015

Glossary of Afghan Words
Acknowledgements
The Authors

Recenzii

“Absolutely charming—touching, hilarious—and very different to all the depressing war tomes on Afghanistan.”

“The story is alternately funny, poignant, and inspiring, providing a glimpse into another Afghanistan.”

“A Night in the Emperor’s Garden is an illuminating and deeply moving book—a startling exploration of Shakespearean mobility, a tribute to the subversive power of the theater, and a poignant account of the tragic dilemmas of contemporary Afghanistan. It is an unforgettable story about courage, artistic ambition, and moral determination in the face of murderous violence.”