SYRIAN REFUGEES, APPLIED THEATER, WORKSHOP FACILITATION, AND STORIES: WHILE THEY WERE WAITING. By Fadi Skeiker. New York: Routledge, 2021; pp. 96 + xi.
I have a personal connection to Fadi Skeiker’s generative reflections on applied theatre work with Syrian refugees, …
MUKHRIJĀT AL-MASRAḤ AL-MIṢRĪ (1990-2010): DIRĀSA SĪMIYŪṬĪQĪYAH [Female Egyptian Directors (1990-2010): A Semiotic Study]. By Hadia Abd El-Fattah. Sharja: Arab Theatre Institute, 2019; pp. 277.
Female Egyptian Directors (1990-2010): A Semiotic Study by Hadia Abd El-Fattah offers an interesting encyclopedic take …
MOTHER COURAGE. By Bertolt Brecht. Adapted and directed by Alison Shan Price for the Kuwait National Council for Culture Arts and Letters (NCCAL). Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah and One World Actors Centre at Yarmouk Cultural Center, Kuwait. March 11, 2023.…
Introduction to Up There by Wael Kadour
Some 6.6 million Syrians have fled Syria since 2011 according to the UNHCR, a diaspora that has included established theatre makers. Many of these artists have found institutional support in Europe, resulting in …
By Matthew Randle-Bent
The Shiraz Arts Festival (1967-77) exerted a significant, yet under-appreciated, influence over the development of performance theory within the US academy. In a sense, the program presented annually in Iran exhibited the “broad spectrum” described by performance …
Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt. By Sonali Pahwa. Performance Works. Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Review by Suzi Elnaggar
Independent Scholar and Dramaturg
In a refreshing departure from the conventionally distinct genres of …
Layalina. By Martin Yousif Zebari. Directed by Sivan Battat. Goodman Theatre, Chicago.
March 17, 2023.
Reviewed by Sami Ismat
Columbia College Chicago
You walk into the theatre greeted first by the music of the legendary Iraqi singer and composer Kadim …
BABA. By Denmo Ibrahim. Directed by Hamid Dehghani. Amphibian Stage, Fort Worth. May 6, 2023.
Reviewed by Suzi Elnaggar
Independent Scholar and Dramaturg
Baba deftly weaves a tapestry of humor and heartache, balancing the situational comedy of endless governmental …
PLAYWRIGHT SHOWCASE. New Arab American Theater Works, Multiple authors. Readings directed by Sherrine Azab, project coordinated by Kathryn Haddad. New Arab American Theater Works, Minneapolis. April 1-2, 2023.
Reviewed by Katherine Hennessey
(Review edited by Edward Ziter)
New Arab …
Where Theatre Has Failed—The Syrians Omar Abusaada and Mohammad Al Attar by Rolf C. Hemke This article first appeared in Theater im arabischen Sprachraum/Theatre in the Arab World Edited by Rolf C. Hemke, Theater der Zeit, 2013 It is reproduced…
