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Link to Arabic press ...
A PLAY FOR OUR TIMES THE AL-HAMLET SUMMIT
... Sulayman Al Bassam’s powerful, disturbing version ... a rich new poetic version ... Some of the results are electrifying ... And I doubt whether this year’s Festival will produce another show so directly relevant to the nightmare that is brewing in the Middle East, or so vivid and eloquent in the theatrical means it uses to confront it ...
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, Thursday,8th August, 2002
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“THE BARD TAKES A FLYER”
... urgent, vital adaptation ... Al-Hamlet is a superbly constructed dramatisation of a society's descent into fundamentalism and chaos ... Ingeniously staged and almost impeccably acted, its elegiac finale pushes it into the realm of the sublime.
Tim Abrahams, The Sunday Herald
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... a fascinating piece by London and Kuwait-based writer/director Sulayman Al Bassam ... But it remains one of the most intriguing and intelligent shows I have seen this year ...
Ian Shuttleworth, The Financial Times, 16th August 2002
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Hamlet takes on Arafat and Sharon in one of the festival's many political plays
... the most daring piece of political theatre on the fringe this week ... it’s a fascinating mix of subtlety and bombast ...
David Stenhouse, The Times, 12th August 2002
Link to a full article ...
Hamlet gets Middle Eastern makeover
... Unnerving ... backdrop of a country wracked by a devastating war as well as domestic insurrection ...
BBC ONLINE
Tuesday, 20 August, 2002, 10:40 GMT 11:40 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/2193375.stm
Link to a full article ...
DirectorÕs Guild of Great Britain
Al-Bassam's production makes telling use of live musicians, recorded sound and screen images and movingly and unpredictably takes on metaphorical overtones to become a powerful critique of todayÕs realpolitik.
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http://www.dggb.co.uk/publications/article11_105.html
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Link to Arabic press ...
A PLAY FOR OUR TIMES THE AL-HAMLET SUMMIT
... Sulayman Al Bassam’s powerful, disturbing version ... a rich new poetic version ... Some of the results are electrifying ... And I doubt whether this year’s Festival will produce another show so directly relevant to the nightmare that is brewing in the Middle East, or so vivid and eloquent in the theatrical means it uses to confront it ...
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, Thursday,8th August, 2002
Link to a full article ...
“THE BARD TAKES A FLYER”
... urgent, vital adaptation ... Al-Hamlet is a superbly constructed dramatisation of a society's descent into fundamentalism and chaos ... Ingeniously staged and almost impeccably acted, its elegiac finale pushes it into the realm of the sublime.
Tim Abrahams, The Sunday Herald
Link to a full article ...
... a fascinating piece by London and Kuwait-based writer/director Sulayman Al Bassam ... But it remains one of the most intriguing and intelligent shows I have seen this year ...
Ian Shuttleworth, The Financial Times, 16th August 2002
Link to a full article ...
Hamlet takes on Arafat and Sharon in one of the festival's many political plays
... the most daring piece of political theatre on the fringe this week ... it’s a fascinating mix of subtlety and bombast ...
David Stenhouse, The Times, 12th August 2002
Link to a full article ...
Hamlet gets Middle Eastern makeover
... Unnerving ... backdrop of a country wracked by a devastating war as well as domestic insurrection ...
BBC ONLINE
Tuesday, 20 August, 2002, 10:40 GMT 11:40 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/2193375.stm
Link to a full article ...
DirectorÕs Guild of Great Britain
Al-Bassam's production makes telling use of live musicians, recorded sound and screen images and movingly and unpredictably takes on metaphorical overtones to become a powerful critique of todayÕs realpolitik.
...
http://www.dggb.co.uk/publications/article11_105.html