Plays by Mediterranean Women

Nawal El Saadawi, Miriam Kainy (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

1994
AURORA METRO BOOKS (Verlag)
978-0-9515877-3-7 (ISBN)

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A collection of astonishing plays by women from countries geographically linked but politically divided. It provided the impetus for an international conference on women playwrights at Tel Aviv University in 1995.

The Plays
Libration by Lluisa Cunill (Spain): A mysterious, intense and comic two-hander about two women who meet in a city park at night.
The End Of The Dream Season by Miriam Kainy (Israel): A woman doctor outwits her friends and relations to retain her inheritance.
Harsh Angel by Maria Avraamidou (Cyprus): A gentle Chekhovian tale of a family torn by the partition of their native land.
Mephisto adapted from the novel by Klaus Mann/ Ariane Mnouchkine (France/Germany): The story of a German actor who sells his soul to Nazi ideology. Also a feature film.

Nawal el Saadawi is a distinguished novelist now living and working in the USA. Dacia Maraini is one of Italy's foremost feminist writers. Klaus Mann is one of Germany's most powerful novelists, here adapted by one of France's leading theatre directors Arian Mnouchkine. Lluisa Cunille is an emerging voice from Catalan Spain whose work has been performed internationally. Miriam Kainy is a writer and academic whose work is regularly performed in both Israel and the USA. Maria Avraamidou is a regular writer for TV and radio in Greece and her work has been performed internationally.

Introduction by Marion Baraitser
Twelve Women in a Cell by Nawal el Saadawi
The End of the Dream Season by Miriam Kainy
Liberation by Lluisa Cunille
Mephisto by Ariane Mnouchkine
Harsh Angel by Maria Avraamidou
Veronica Franco, Courtesan and Poet by Dacia Maraini

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.10.1994
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Cheryl Robson Berater: Susan Croft
Verlagsort	Twickenham
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-9515877-3-0 / 0951587730
ISBN-13	978-0-9515877-3-7 / 9780951587737
Zustand	Neuware