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Why Theatre?\u2014an Editorial – The Markaz Review TMR<\/p>\n

Dare Not Speak\u2014a One-Act Play – Hassan Abdulrazzak<\/p>\n

As We Near the End (or What Adorno Said) – Yussef El Guindi<\/p>\n

Theatre is the Thing: TMR\u2019s Best-Books List – TMR<\/p>\n

Wajdi Mouawad\u2019s \u201cControversial\u201d Wedding Day – Elie Chalala<\/p>\n

What Kind Of Liar Am I?\u2014a Short Play – Mona Mansour<\/p>\n

The Return of Danton\u2014a Play by Mudar Alhaggi & Collective Ma\u2019louba – Mudar Alhaggi<\/p>\n

Noor and Hadi Go to Hogwarts\u2014a Short Play – Lameece Issaq<\/p>\n

Omar Naim Exclusive: Two Films on Beirut & Theatre<\/p>\n

A Bicentennial Remembrance of Lord Byron, Among Greeks & Turks – William Gourlay<\/p>\n

Arab Shakespeare? – Georgina Van Welie<\/p>\n

Palestine, Political Theatre & the Performance of Queer Solidarity in Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love – Saleem Haddad<\/p>\n

Laughing for Change\u2014Activist Theatre Tours Egypt – Nada Sabet<\/p>\n

Nothing is Normal, Nothing Is What it Seems (Underground Theatre in Iran After the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement) -Interview by Mehrnaz Daneshvar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In which the editors of The Markaz Review and playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak present the theatre issue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":40012,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[3209],"product_tag":[],"coauthors":[2196],"class_list":{"0":"post-33738","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-tmr-issues","7":"desktop-align-left","8":"tablet-align-left","9":"mobile-align-left","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"virtual","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTHEATRE - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For this first issue on Arab and Middle Eastern\/North African theatre and the work of playwrights in diaspora; Iraqi-British playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak introduces the issue and gives us a sense of what it was like to be a young drama adept. 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