Goats (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Liwaa Yazji; Katharine Halls

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848427204 ISBN 13: 9781848427204

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2017

Synopsis

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. Developed as part of the Royal Court International Department's long-term project with writers from Syria and Lebanon, Goats is a major new work by Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker Liwaa Yazj, translated by Katharine Halls. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 2017.

About this title

Review:

"Disturbing, bitterly funny and caustically angry... a painful and original piece about the terrible price of conflict and oppression." --Financial Times

About the Author:

Liwaa Yazji (Writer)

For the Royal Court: Goats ('Told From the Inside" Reading).

Other theatre includes: Here in the Park, Q&Q (Birth Festival/Royal Exchange, Manchester).

Television includes: The Brothers (Pan Arab channels), Heim (Germany).
Films include: Haunted (feature documentary).

Awards include: Special Mention in the First Film Competition at FID Marseille (Haunted); GIGAF Festival Tunis Al-Waha Bronze Award (Haunted).

Liwaa Yazji is a Syrian Playwright, Filmmaker, Screenwriter and Poet. She was born in Moscow and grew up in Damascus. She has published a volume of poetry In Peace, we leave Home and was resident poet at Poets House New York in 2015 where her book Three Poems was published in English. Liwaa took part in the Royal Court workshops in Beirut with writers from Lebanon and Syria from 2013-15 where she began the work on Goats, supported by the British Council.

Katharine Halls

For the Royal Court: Ghalia's Miles ('Told From the Inside' Reading).

Other theatre includes: Zig Zig, Bashar Murkus & Khashabi Ensemble (Kaaitheater, Brussels); Whims of Freedom (Maxim Gorki, Berlin/SHISH/LIFT/Kaaitheater, Brussels); Lessons in Revolting (Rawabet, Cairo).

Film includes: The Coming Attraction, The Vote, The Crossing, Out on the Street, Common State.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1848427204
• ISBN 13: 9781848427204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128