Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre - Series page

pp ii-iv

The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous - Title page

pp v-v

Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-ix

Contributors

pp x-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xvi

Notes on Transliteration and Translation

pp xvii-xvii

Chronology of Wannous’ Life, Plays, and Selected Writings

pp xviii-xxii

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Situating Wannous

pp 13-56

1 - Wannous and Syrian and World Drama

pp 15-33

2 - Wannous and Brecht: The Playwright as Political Activist

pp 34-56

Part II - Reading Wannous

pp 57-118

3 - Keeping Silent, or the Silence That Kept Wannous

pp 59-77

4 - The Failure of Revolutionary Humanism: Reading Wannous with Fanon

pp 78-95

5 - Historiography as Resistance in the Later Plays of Wannous

pp 96-118

Part III - Staging Wannous

pp 119-162

6 - Rituals Transformed: Wannous, Intercultural Translation, and the Widening Gyre

pp 121-141

7 - Speaking the Unspeakable: On Directing Wannous

pp 142-156

8 - Conversation with Contemporary Playwright Mohammad Al Attar

pp 157-162

Part IV - Remembering Wannous

pp 163-207

9 - Unpacking Wannous’ Library

pp 165-185

10 - A Student of Theatre in Paris

pp 186-194

11 - Grammar of Life and Death

pp 195-203

12 - Be What You Want to Be

pp 204-207

List of Wannous’ Plays

pp 208-208

Summaries of Wannous’ Principal Plays

pp 209-216

Bibliography

pp 217-225