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One Thousand and One Nights: Modern Plays

Autor Hanan al-Shaykh, Tim Supple
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 aug 2011
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers.Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. Shahrazad prolongs her life by keeping the King engrossed in a web of stories that never ends - a fascinating kaleidoscope of life, love and destiny. The tales that unfold are erotic, violent, supernatural and endlessly surprising.The web of tales woven by Shahrazad were exoticised and bowdlerised in the West under the title of the Arabian Nights. This adaptation unearths the true character of One Thousand and One Nights as it is in the oldest Arabic manuscripts. In turns erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex, the tales tell of love and marriage, power and punishment, rich and poor, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. The great cities and thriving trade routes of the Islamic world provide the setting for these stories that employ supernatural mystery and intense realism to portray the deep and endless drama of human experience.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408159613
ISBN-10: 1408159619
Pagini: 258
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

One Thousand and One Nights follows Dash Arts' international sensation the Indian Dream, commissioned by the British Council in 2006

Notă biografică

Hanan al-Shaykh is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on Arab womanhood. Her works include Women of Sand and Myrrh, The Story of Zahra, Beirut Blues and The Locust and the Bird. Tim Supple is one of the world's leading theatre directors and creators. His widely-acclaimed works include Twelfth Night (Channel 4 film), Tales from Ovid, A Servant to Two Masters (both RSC) and a multi-lingual A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dash Arts/world tour).

Recenzii

Supple's wonderful production...an instant classic of engaged story telling...a rediscovered literary masterpiece.
Ambitious does not begin to describe it...it is impossible not to warm to these tales. They are sexy, irreverent, surprising, visually arresting.
Tim Supple's outstanding dramatisation...he is very much Peter Brook's successor...a fantastic tree of ever-branching stories...the topicality of this - from Arab Spring to post-riot Britain - does not need spelling out...this was quietly wonderful, world class theatre.
An extraordinary enterprise...moving and durable.

Descriere

This unique stage adaptation of the ancient tales unearths their true character from the oldest Arabic manuscripts: erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex. Adapted by leading theatre-maker Tim Supple, from stories by Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, the tales tell of love, marriage, power, punishment, and the endless trials of fate.