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The Black Eyed & Architecture

The Black Eyed & Architecture

Shamieh, Betty

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ISBN10: 088145401X
ISBN13: 9780881454017
Publisher: Broadway Play Pub Inc (Ny)
Published: Jan 1 2009
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This collection includes one full-length play, THE BLACK EYED, and one short play, ARCHITECTURE. THE BLACK EYED: Four Arab women from across the ages meet in the afterlife. As these characters - who include the Biblical Delilah and a secular modern Arab-American - struggle to come to terms with their lives and their choices, this shockingly funny play skewers traditional views on sex, family, and terrorism. ARCHITECTURE: A short play based on the character of the Architect from the play THE BLACK EYED. A gorgeously conceived and realized drama ... [Shamieh's] theatrical imagination, in its agility and its urgency, brings to mind Tony Kushner, whose faith in eloquence as an instrument of change is echoed here. -The New Yorker Shamieh's writing is powerful! Violence haunts the four Palestinian women occupying an anteroom of the afterlife ... these souls in Samuel Beckett-like transit are The Black Eyed which happens to be the title of Betty Shamieh's provocative theater piece. -International Herald Tribune A chillingly beautiful piece about the relationship between seduction and violence! -San Francisco Weekly From its first words, Shamieh's play grabs you and won't let go. -Oakland Tribune Shamieh's writing is thoughtful, her perspective informed. -The New York Times

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