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Sharia Law Shakespeare

Feridon Rashidi

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Description:Set in Tehran during the turbulent period following the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 and the establishing of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sharia Law Shakespeare follows the difficulties which beset Behrouz, a writer and producer of plays, when, in a brave stand in the name of culture against the new and increasingly suppressive regime, he tries to stage Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello. The venture soon becomes his own personal tragedy.Having obtained permission to stage the drama, his amateur theatre group faces numerous and often laughable problems when the senior mollah from the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance orders that the play be adapted to meet the requirements of the prevailing Sharia Law in Iran. Just one absurdity is that Desdemona is forced to wear the Islamic hijab.As the actors perform different scenes for inspection, the mollah and the regime’s officials demand radical changes to the play. In the process the tragedy turns into the most grotesque comedy. Finding some of the dialogue outrageously sinful, the mollah decides that the play must be banned and the director and actors arrested and prosecuted. As the mollah and his retinue prepare to leave the workshop, ‘Othello’, a hot-headed member of the cast, threatens the mollah, quoting vengeful lines from the end of the play, and lifts his wooden sword to bring it down on the mollah’s head. The regime’s henchmen pounce on Othello and drag him from the workshop, putting him in prison. Behrouz, raging against the regime, writes subversive articles in a dissident newspaper, as a consequence of which he has to go into hiding. His friends keep moving him from one hiding place to another as the thugs of the regime hunt him relentlessly. Through his nightly odyssey in Tehran he undergoes some nightmarish experiences, including being cooped up in a dark attic room, concealed in the basement of an unsavoury lodging-house, mingling with opium junkies in a derelict roadside inn, and, finally, left alone in an abandoned tailor’s workshop with only mannequins for company.From the window he witnesses the stupidity of his countrymen as, day and night, they demonstrate in front of the American Embassy during the hostage crisis. Frustrated by his solitary confinement, one day he mingles with the crowd to experience what is going on for himself. The whole scene, with opportunistic street vendors and hawkers selling all sorts of goods, including American flags and effigies of the American president to burn and trample upon, reminds him of a grotesque version of the carnivals of his youth, devoted not to pleasure, but hate and profit-making. As the circle of thugs closes in on Behrouz, and with his life now in serious danger, his friends arrange for him to leave Iran. Some of his close friends have already been executed or assassinated. Wearing an Islamic hijab, he is driven by people traffickers to Pakistan, from where a human rights organisation arranges for him to go to Paris. Having left his belovedhomeland, he must now adjust to life as an exile.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sharia Law Shakespeare. To get started finding Sharia Law Shakespeare, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 198

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: New Generation Publishing

Release: 2017

ISBN: 1787194612

Description: Set in Tehran during the turbulent period following the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 and the establishing of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sharia Law Shakespeare follows the difficulties which beset Behrouz, a writer and producer of plays, when, in a brave stand in the name of culture against the new and increasingly suppressive regime, he tries to stage Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello. The venture soon becomes his own personal tragedy.Having obtained permission to stage the drama, his amateur theatre group faces numerous and often laughable problems when the senior mollah from the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance orders that the play be adapted to meet the requirements of the prevailing Sharia Law in Iran. Just one absurdity is that Desdemona is forced to wear the Islamic hijab.As the actors perform different scenes for inspection, the mollah and the regime’s officials demand radical changes to the play. In the process the tragedy turns into the most grotesque comedy. Finding some of the dialogue outrageously sinful, the mollah decides that the play must be banned and the director and actors arrested and prosecuted. As the mollah and his retinue prepare to leave the workshop, ‘Othello’, a hot-headed member of the cast, threatens the mollah, quoting vengeful lines from the end of the play, and lifts his wooden sword to bring it down on the mollah’s head. The regime’s henchmen pounce on Othello and drag him from the workshop, putting him in prison. Behrouz, raging against the regime, writes subversive articles in a dissident newspaper, as a consequence of which he has to go into hiding. His friends keep moving him from one hiding place to another as the thugs of the regime hunt him relentlessly. Through his nightly odyssey in Tehran he undergoes some nightmarish experiences, including being cooped up in a dark attic room, concealed in the basement of an unsavoury lodging-house, mingling with opium junkies in a derelict roadside inn, and, finally, left alone in an abandoned tailor’s workshop with only mannequins for company.From the window he witnesses the stupidity of his countrymen as, day and night, they demonstrate in front of the American Embassy during the hostage crisis. Frustrated by his solitary confinement, one day he mingles with the crowd to experience what is going on for himself. The whole scene, with opportunistic street vendors and hawkers selling all sorts of goods, including American flags and effigies of the American president to burn and trample upon, reminds him of a grotesque version of the carnivals of his youth, devoted not to pleasure, but hate and profit-making. As the circle of thugs closes in on Behrouz, and with his life now in serious danger, his friends arrange for him to leave Iran. Some of his close friends have already been executed or assassinated. Wearing an Islamic hijab, he is driven by people traffickers to Pakistan, from where a human rights organisation arranges for him to go to Paris. Having left his belovedhomeland, he must now adjust to life as an exile.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sharia Law Shakespeare. To get started finding Sharia Law Shakespeare, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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