Goats
- Full Length Play, Drama, Comedy, Contemporary
- 9M, 4F
- ISBN: 9781848427204
"Has anyone ever told the truth? Has anyone ever demanded it? Does anyone want it? Does anyone even need it?"
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Comedy
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set, live goats in original production
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Large Stage
In a small town in Syria, soldiers are celebrated as heroes and grieving families are nourished on propaganda.
As coffins pile up, a local party leader decides on a radical compensation scheme: a goat for each son martyred.
Goats is a major work by Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker Liwaa Yazji, translated by Katharine Halls.
Developed as part of the Royal Court International Department's long-term project with writers from Syria and Lebanon, the play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, in November 2017, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.
REVIEWS:
"Disturbing, bitterly funny and caustically angry... a painful and original piece about the terrible price of conflict and oppression."
Financial Times
"Exposes the mixture of grotesquerie and cruelty that are aspects of civil war."
The Guardian
"Compelling... a darkly humorous lens through which to examine the messy, multi-sided, multi-storied conflict that is the Syrian Civil War."
Exeunt Magazine
Premiere Production:
Royal Court Theatre, London, 2014.
Characters
- Casting: 9M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)
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