A goat for every martyr: the bitterly funny play about the surreal cost of Syria's civil war
There are villages where the families of dead soldiers are given a goat as compensation. This struck Liwaa Yazji as the perfect starting point for a play " with live animals " about the horrors and compromises of life under warWhen the protests of 2011 in Syria turned into armed revolution, and the country slipped into civil war, poet and playwright Liwaa Yazji began filling her notebooks with the bizarre, painful de…