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