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Lecture delivered by Khalid Amine at the University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities that examines the radical shift in performing Shakespeare in Arab countries since the 1960s. Includes a...
Video recording of the play by Suleyman Al-Bassam. . In a totalitarian state somewhere in the Arab World, all forms of theatre have been banned, but a condemned 1960’s classic play has become the focal...
Video recording of Suleyman al-Bassam’s play performed at the Tokyo International Arts Festival. The play borrows from Shakespeare’s plot to create a poetic and powerful critique of contemporary...
Comedy/crime feature film with songs claiming inspiration from Hamlet. A landowner is accused of murder and the device of staging a play is employed whereby Kishore, disguised as an Arab, puts together a...
Reflecting on his travels and encounters around the Arab world, ‘New Generation Thinker’ Islam Issa (Birmingham City University) discusses how canonical English writers (Shakespeare and Milton) creep...
A new production of Kuwaiti-British writer Sulayman Al-Bassam’s reimagining of Hamlet, transplanted from Denmark to a modern Arab state in trouble.
A video recording of the Sulayman al-Bassam Theatre’s production of Richard III with Fayez Kazak as King Richard. The production was commissioned for the Complete Works Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon....
Live sound recording of John Barton’s 1971 touring production of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brewster Mason as Othello and Emrys James as Iago.
War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...
Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2005 production of The Tempest directed by Kate Whoriskey and videotaped for WAPAVA by Mikael Manoukian. Philip Goodwin is Prospero.
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