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Tales of a City by the Sea - Paperback

by Samah Sabawi
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Availability:In StockContributor:Samah SabawiPublish date:2016-04-01Pages:54
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Currency PressISBN-13:9781925005813ISBN-10:192500581XUPC:9781925005813Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Australian & OceanianSize:8.27 x 5.39 x 0.15 inchesWeight:0.15Product ID:SC415X0K9H

'If only our bodies were bulletproof

If only our boats were made of steel

If only our dreams were real.'

Gaza, 2008. A Palestinian journalist writes poetry on the beach. A doctor must decide to stay or leave. Then come the missiles and the phosphorus showers.

This is a furious and tender exploration of the fragility of freedom. The national collides with the personal as activism and reporting take to the stage. Tales of a City by the Sea uses poetry, tenderness and humour to explore the love between those who have choices, and those who do not. Language fails us when it comes to displacement and grief; yet Samah Sabawi's language cracks grief open and remains present, like the sea.

Tales of a City by the Sea was staged twice in 2014: at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne and at the Aida refugee camp in Palestine.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Currency PressISBN-13:9781925005813ISBN-10:192500581XUPC:9781925005813Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Australian & OceanianSize:8.27 x 5.39 x 0.15 inchesWeight:0.15Product ID:SC415X0K9H
Sabawi, Samah: - SAMAH SABAWI is an award winning playwright, author and poet. Her critically acclaimed play Tales of a City by the Sea was selected for the 2016 Victorian Certificate of Education Drama Playlist, won two Drama Victoria awards for best new Australian publication and best performance for VCE and was nominated for Best Independent Production at the Green Room Awards. Sabawi co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas, winner of the Canadian 2017 biennial Patrick O'Neill Award for best play anthology. She co-authored the poetry collection I Remember My Name, which won a prestigious Palestine Book Award. Sabawi's poems are published in various magazines and books including West End Press's With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century and Just World Books' Gaza Unsilenced! Samah is a sought-after international speaker, a policy advisor to Al-Shabaka (a leading Palestinian think tank) and Policy Network, and a frequent guest presenter on ABC radio's Jon Faine's Conversation Hour. She is an MTC-Connect Cultural Ambassador for Multicultural Arts Victoria and a PhD candidate at Victoria University, where she has been awarded an Australian Postgraduate Research Scholarship.
Publisher: Currency Press

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