Al-Bassam Theatre Takes Inspiration From Shakespeare and the Arab Spring by Jeffrey Brown, Saskia De Melker

Kuwaiti playwright and theater director Sulayman al-Bassam adapts Shakespearean plays to the modern Arab context to explore issues of religion and society in the contemporary Gulf. Art Beat talked with al-Bassam in Kuwait in 2007 when his company was presenting the play, "Richard III: An Arab Tragedy." Al-Bassam's latest work is the final part in his Arab Shakespeare Trilogy, a new play called "The Speaker's Progr…

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