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HANNAH KHALIL talks to Joe Gill about her new play on the fraught history of Western interventions in Iraq
Groundbreaking: A Museum in Baghdad in rehearsal
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
ON THE first day of rehearsals for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of A Museum in Baghdad, writer Hannah Khalil looked around the studio at the big cast.
All but two were, like herself, of Arab descent.
“It was an emotional moment,” says the Irish-Palestinian dramatist. “I felt really proud, because that’s what I wanted to do — to write good, exciting, meaty, real parts for non-white actors.”
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