Ur Contributor(s): Bassam, Sulayman Al (Author) |
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ISBN: 1786825651 ISBN-13: 9781786825650 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | Middle Eastern - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
Series: Oberon Modern Plays |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.20 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Ancient Sumeria, a woman's desire for sexual sovereignty and radical vision of civic plurality draws the anger and outrage of the male status quo and unleashes catastrophe onto her city and her body. The seminal Lamentation for the Destruction of the City of Ur is the first poem written for a civic entity -- a city -- in the history of mankind. Writing scenes across multiple timelines that stretch from 2000 BC, to the European Imperialist fantasies of the late 19th Century, to the ISIS destruction of Palmyra in 2015, to a distorted Utopian vision of the future, Al Bassam's play is a riot of imagination and poetic archaeology, exploring themes of iconoclasm, civic space and feminine apotheosis. UR evokes the utopia and destruction of one of humanity's oldest cities, and is played by an ensemble composed of four Arabic actors working alongside four members of the Residenztheater ensemble. |
Contributor Bio(s): Al-Bassam, Sulayman: - Sulayman Al-Bassam is an Anglo-Kuwaiti writer and the director of Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre, an international group of theatre practitioners, musicians and visual artists, dedicated to the production of challenging and innovative theatre. |