Middle East – Archive

In Wall, David Hare conjures a vision of the future; drawing on history that is being written as we speak, his journies make faraway lands feel less distant, less foreign than we’d have them be.

It’s all too easy to remain detached from the subject of Iraq. Stovepipe aims to pick us up off the sidelines and deposit us bodily into the midst of the relief effort.

In February 2005 I saw the show at the Tiny Alice theatre with a real cast, real musicians, costumes, voices, singing and dancing and not once was the war mentioned.

The language in Kalila Wa Dimna is archaic in its formalism, deeply poetic with constant recourse to metaphor and similie and an acute awareness of rhyme and rhythm.