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Everyman
Sulayman Al-Bassam seems capable of taking on any theatrical
convention, anytime, anywhere. Watch out for the name. - The
Stage, UK
Poetic, intensely physical, marvellously inventive. -
The Scotsman, UK
The Game Show
Highly unpredictable, well-acted and full of surprises. -
Rene Solis,
Liberation, FRANCE.
Hamlet In Kuwait
Every aspect of this production has an audacious and innovative zing about
it.
- 'Al-Anba'
Newspaper, KUWAIT
The dark night of Kuwaiti theatre has finally and indisputably been ripped
apart by the light of this Hamlet. This works demands to be seen.
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'Al-Rai Al-Aaam' Newspaper, KUWAIT
The director's vision resembles nothing I have seen done with Hamlet before
he has been able to dramatise our reality with a courageous directness.
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'Al-Qabas' Newspaper, KUWAIT
This work carries the signs of exceptional talent . - Jawad
Al-Asadi (most prominent theatre
director in arab world today)
Arab League Hamlet
Al-Bassam
has proven himself a highly capable theatrical thinker. - Awni Karoumi-
Volksbuhne Theatre, BERLIN
This work, remarkable in its simplicity, is of TRULY
international standard. - M.
Kouka ( Director of National Theatre of Tunis), Le Temps Daily, TUNIS
Al Hamlet Summit
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
The Al-Hamlet
Summit takes the characters in Shakespeare’s play to a Middle East
peace conference. Complete with interpreters and live music, it’s
a fascinating mix of subtlety and bombast. - David
Stenhouse, The Times
The Al-Hamlet Summit, set in a Middle Eastern country riven with war and
corruption, deservedly won a Fringe First Award last week.
- BBC Online
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