Unjust Laughter: Representations of Equity-Deserving Groups in Contemporary Iraqi Comedy
Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a “white” Iraqi back home (in Iraq)...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 8th Jan 2023 | Essay, Iraq, Theatre and Politics
Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a “white” Iraqi back home (in Iraq)...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Dec 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 28th Jun 2021 | Interview, Iraq, Playwriting
Based on a recent phone interview with Al-Zaidi, the most prominent Iraqi playwright. Ali Al-Zaidi...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The rewriting of Ancient Greek myth offers a way of creating contemporary stories that have a deep...
Read MorePosted by Rahaf Fasheh | 11th Feb 2019 | Canada, News
On January 11, 2019, the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of...
Read MorePosted by Afrah Shawqi | 23rd Dec 2016 | Iraq, News, Theatre for Young Audiences
Converting a pick-up truck into a mobile theatre isn’t that easy, says Hussein Ali Saleh, an Iraqi...
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