Shakespeare in Kabul
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Shakespeare in Kabul

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In 2005, a group of actors in Kabul performed Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost to the cheers of Afghan audiences and the raves of foreign journalists. For the first time in years, men and women had appeared onstage together. The future held no limits, the actors believed. In this fast-moving, fondly told and frequently very funny account, Qais Akbar Omar and Stephen Landrigan capture the triumphs and foibles of the actors as they extend their Afghan passion for poetry to Shakespeare's.Both authors were part of the production. Qais, a journalist, served as Assistant Director and interpreter for Paris actress, Corinne Jaber, who had come to Afghanistan on holiday and returned to direct the play. Stephen, himself a playwright, assembled a team of Afghan translators to fashion a script in Dari as poetic as Shakespeare's. This chronicle of optimism plays out against the heartbreak of knowing that things in Afghanistan have not turned out the way the actors expected.

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Publisher
Haus Publishing
Year
2012
ISBN
9781907822483
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication page
  5. Contents
  6. Exposition
  7. 1. Prologue
  8. 2. A Cry of Players
  9. 3. Selecting a Play
  10. 4. Finding Funds
  11. 5. Making the Script
  12. Climax
  13. 6. Casting: the Boys
  14. 7. Casting: the Girls
  15. 8. Casting: searching for Marina
  16. 9. Rehearsals, Act One
  17. 10. Rehearsals, Act Two
  18. 11. Tea with Shakespeare
  19. 12. Meaning of Love
  20. 13. Behind the Scenes
  21. 14. “This Theatre of Heaven”
  22. 15. Rehearsals, Act Three
  23. 16. Exists and Entrances
  24. 17. Expulsion of the Russians
  25. Resolution
  26. 18. Performance
  27. 19. The Queen’s Palace
  28. 20. The Light Garden of the Angel King
  29. 21. Applause
  30. 22. Encores
  31. 23. Mazar-e-Sharif
  32. 24. Herat
  33. 25. Curtain
  34. Authors’ Note
  35. Website