A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s metafictional essay, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous chorus of lovers, and this oft-told tale is multiplied. In Club Scheherazade, there is no protagonist, and every song has various versions. Heteronormative dramaturgy is challenged polyphonically and across a range of media: lovers ask each other about threesomes, Grindr contacts and past dates. Pop clichés are twisted, heartache permeates the men’s singing, and poems by Wadih Saadeh are read out while a lover’s dirty laundry is aired. The narrator mischievously tries for a happy ending as her characters exit the story. “If pain could be forgotten through words,” we hear at one point, “no lover would ever have to walk away wounded.”展开
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Dennis P. Marburger Barbara Zablocky Morgan Fearnow Taylen Washington 蒂姆·洛斯 迈克尔·埃弗雷特·约翰逊 Seth Fearnow Emma Hansberry Adam Moye Beck Rosser Trisha Hart Erin Lough Kai Rosser Grace Hansberry Charlie Brown Aaron Drabnis Stephanie Drake Sonia Aleman Jason Can
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艾米莉亚·琼斯 斯科特·麦克纳里 奈萨·多尔蒂 吉娜·戴维斯 科迪·费恩 玛丽亚·巴卡洛娃 贝拉·墨菲 亚当·兰伯特 本·阿塔尔 Ryan Thurston Isabella Peregrina Roman Gonzalez Trent Allen Davis Cabe Thompson Atim Udoffia Becky Leia Matt Standley Colleen Ann Bowling Robert Parsons Dane Iverson Price