[audiobook] Daliacute; (Best of) by Eric Shanes in Arts-Photography

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Sulayman Al Bassam is one of the worlds leading contemporary dramatists. His adaptations of Shakespeare; performed around the world; have won many awards and met with widespread acclaim on four continents. This volume brings together for the first time three of Al Bassams adaptations of Shakespearean plays - including versions of Hamlet; Richard III and Twelfth Night - collectively known as The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy. The Al-Hamlet Summit sees the familiar characters of Hamlet reborn as delegates placed in a conference room in an unnamed modern Arab state on the brink of war; Richard III: an Arab Tragedy is a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeares classic; reworked and transplanted into the scorching oil-rich Islamic world of the Gulf; while The Speakers Progress is a forensic reconstruction of Twelfth Night which transforms into an unequivocal act of defiance towards the state; forming a dark satire on the decades of hopelessness and political inertia that fed twenty-first-century revolts across the Arab region.The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy features an editorial introduction by Graham Holderness; positioning the plays within the contexts of both modern Shakespearean drama and Arab culture as well as an authors preface by Sulayman Al Bassam; detailing the plays history of theatrical reception and outlining his philosophy of Shakespeare adaptation.