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Fireworks: Al´ ab Nariya
Dalia Taha
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Description for Fireworks: Al´ ab Nariya
Paperback. Translator(s): Naylor, Clem. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 11. Weight in Grams: 84.
There’s no-one in the streets but us. You run that way and I’ll run this way. Whoever gets back to the front door first without getting shot, wins. In a Palestinian town eleven-year-old Lubna and twelve-year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege intensifies outside, fear for their safety becomes as crippling as the conflict itself. Dalia Taha’s play offers a new way of seeing how war fractures childhood. Fireworks (Al’ab Nariya) is part of International Playwrights: A Genesis Foundation Project and received its world premiere at the Royal ... Read more
There’s no-one in the streets but us. You run that way and I’ll run this way. Whoever gets back to the front door first without getting shot, wins. In a Palestinian town eleven-year-old Lubna and twelve-year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege intensifies outside, fear for their safety becomes as crippling as the conflict itself. Dalia Taha’s play offers a new way of seeing how war fractures childhood. Fireworks (Al’ab Nariya) is part of International Playwrights: A Genesis Foundation Project and received its world premiere at the Royal ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Weight
83g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474244503
SKU
V9781474244503
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About Dalia Taha
Dalia Taha is a Palestinian poet and playwright. She was born in Berlin in 1986 and grew up in Ramallah, Palestine. Her first play, Keffiyeh/Made in China, was produced by the Flemish Royal Theatre and A.M. Qattan Foundation, and premiered in Brussels before touring seven Palestinian cities across the West Bank. Dalia Taha is currently pursuing an MFA in Playwriting ... Read more
Reviews for Fireworks: Al´ ab Nariya
By concentrating on their experience, Dalia Taha's play offers a refreshingly oblique perspective on the conflict in Gaza.
Evening Standard
. . . she [Dalia Taha] gives a vivid account of the psychic damage done to children growing up in a city like Gaza and of the elaborate pretences adopted by their parents to protect them from reality. ... Read more
Evening Standard
. . . she [Dalia Taha] gives a vivid account of the psychic damage done to children growing up in a city like Gaza and of the elaborate pretences adopted by their parents to protect them from reality. ... Read more