Goats
Will be published approx. on 23. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-84842-720-4 (ISBN)
Description
'Has anyone ever told the truth? Has anyone ever demanded it? Does anyone want it? Does anyone even need it?'
In a small town in Syria, soldiers are celebrated as heroes and grieving families are nourished on propaganda.
As coffins pile up, a local party leader decides on a radical compensation scheme: a goat for each son martyred.
Goats is a major new work by Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker Liwaa Yazj, translated by Katharine Halls.
Developed as part of the Royal Court International Department's long-term project with writers from Syria and Lebanon, the play premiered
at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, on 24 November 2017, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.
In a small town in Syria, soldiers are celebrated as heroes and grieving families are nourished on propaganda.
As coffins pile up, a local party leader decides on a radical compensation scheme: a goat for each son martyred.
Goats is a major new work by Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker Liwaa Yazj, translated by Katharine Halls.
Developed as part of the Royal Court International Department's long-term project with writers from Syria and Lebanon, the play premiered
at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, on 24 November 2017, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.
Reviews / Votes
'Disturbing, bitterly funny and caustically angry... a painful and original piece about the terrible price of conflict and oppression' * Financial Times * 'Exposes the mixture of grotesquerie and cruelty that are aspects of civil war' * Guardian * 'Compelling... a darkly humorous lens through which to examine the messy, multi-sided, multi-storied conflict that is the Syrian Civil War' * Exeunt Magazine *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
180 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84842-720-4 (9781848427204)
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Persons
Liwaa Yazji is a Syrian playwright, filmmaker, screenwriter and poet. She was born in Moscow and grew up in Damascus. Her plays include Goats (Royal Court, 2017). She has published a volume of poetry, Peacefully We Leave Home, and was resident poet at Poets House, New York, in 2015 where her book Three Poems was published in English.
Katharine Halls is a Arabic-to-English translator with extensive experience in the translation of colloquial Arabic in both written and spoken forms. She has worked with Egyptian, Sudanese, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian dialects, mainly focusing on translating literature and challenging non-fiction texts.
Katharine Halls is a Arabic-to-English translator with extensive experience in the translation of colloquial Arabic in both written and spoken forms. She has worked with Egyptian, Sudanese, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian dialects, mainly focusing on translating literature and challenging non-fiction texts.