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Al-Bassam, Sulayman; Holderness, Graham

 
9781902806624: The Al-Hamlet Summit: A Political Arabesque

Synopsis


About the Book


The room is set up like a conference hall somewhere in the Arab world, or perhaps like the legislative assembly of a small modern state. There are desks with push-button microphones and headsets. Behind, there is a screen, as if someone planned to give a Powerpoint presentation. But the names on the desks are the familiar characters from Hamlet.

The setting of Sulayman Al Bassam's powerful, disturbing version of the Hamlet story is a modern Middle-Eastern state whose old king has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, westernised dictator who has married the old king's wife to legitimise his rule, and calls his regime a “new democracy”.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sulayman Al-Bassam is an Anglo-Kuwaiti writer and director based in London and Kuwait. His play, The Mirror For Princes premiered at the Barbican in Spring 2006.

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