Futures: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab Theater (Arabic Edition)
$38.24
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2026
Summary
An anthology of six new plays written in Arabic, published here in English translation. Including five plays selected from over 500 submissions to Masrah Ensemble’s 2021 Open Call and one by Masrah Ensemble’s former playwright-in-residence, these six texts—by Yasser Abu Shaqra, Arze Khodr, Rim Mejdi, Wael Qaddur, Nasr Sami, and Leila Tubal—represent a diverse array of voices and styles, and push at the limits of theatrical form and public discourse. The volume features an introduction by thea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798989946105 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Yasser Abu Saqra, Agnes Borinsky, Paul Spera |
| Publisher: | 53rd State Press |
| Imprint: | 53rd State Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 177mm |
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Yasser Abu Saqra
Yasser Abu Shaqra
Yasser Abu Shaqra, a Palestinian-Syrian writer and theater-maker, was born in Damascus in 1985 and graduated from Damascus’s Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. Between 2010 and 2014, he organized a number of participatory theater projects in Damascus and the Syrian countryside. His play Before Dinner (2015) has been translated into English and Japanese, and was subsequently presented in Beirut, Baghdad, San Francisco, New York, Paris and Tokyo. A collection of his poetry was published in Denmark, and another play, Honey, Sun, and Gold (2021), was performed in Tunisia. He lives in France.
Paul Spera
Actor and theater maker Paul Spera has collaborated with Masrah Ensemble since 2015, in Shatila and Beirut with the Family Ti-Jean project, and in Paris for the first French-language reading of Yasser Abu Shaqra’s Before Dinner, translated by Krystel Khoury and co-produced by Maison d’Europe et d’Orient and Thetre des Minuits. He is a member of Kultursciok Live Art Collective based in Paris and Naples, and he has performed in theater pieces and films in Europe, the US, and the Middle East.
Agnes Borinsky
Agnes Borinsky (she/they) is a writer, performer, and theater-maker based in Los Angeles. She is interested in the unintended transformations that become possible when the things we’ve planned fail. Her projects include many plays (The Trees, A Song of Songs, Of Government, Ding Dong It’s the Ocean), experiments in participation (Working Group for a New Spirit, Weird Classrooms), and fiction (Sasha Masha). She has made work in collaboration with theater institutions Playwrights Horizons, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb and outside of them, in basements, backyards, circus tents, community centers, and online. Her play, Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8, was published by 3 Hole Press, and Of Government is included in Clubbed Thumb’s 2021 anthology.
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