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presents
four days of wisdom-oriented entertainment
featuring a series of three spellbinding theatrical
shorts
The Philosopher and the
Bedouin
Why did a new found
friendship suddenly turn sour on the road from Tabuk?
(Persia
from the Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi)
On His Majesty’s Service
A minstrel sings King
Sabar an unsettling tune.
(A Wolof Tale from Senegal)
Let the Truth Out of
the Bag
An altercation. A face
off in court. A mysterious bag.
(Iraq
from the 1001 Nights)
plus a collection of
riveting stories from across the Muslim world
Set in a traditional
coffee house amidst a bustling marketplace (souk), Souk Stories has been
especially devised to celebrate the relationship between marketplaces and
storytelling in the Muslim world. Combining street and stage theatre and
employing a range of theatrical techniques and devices, both traditional and
contemporary, Souk Stories will offer dramatic interludes of fun and
entertainment to visitors of all ages. Souk Stories was first staged as part of
a year long Shakespeare and Islam season at Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition in
November 2004 receiving popular acclaim and capacity audiences.
Show Times
06
July: 11.00 / 14.00 / 15.45 /
17.00
07
July: 11.00 / 14.45 / 16.00
08
July: 11.00 / 12.30 / 14.30 /
16.00 / 17.00
09
July: 11.00 / 14.00 / 16.30
Show times are subject
to change with out notice. Please confirm times on the day.
Khayaal Theatre Company
revitalising the dream
of virtue
Khayaal is an
award-winning British arts enterprise that develops and produces original dramatic
interpretations of classic Muslim world literature for the stage, radio and
screen.
Founded in 1997,
Khayaal is the first and only professional theatre company of its kind in the
West offering audiences a fascinating experience of Muslim world culture
through contemporary performing arts. Inspired by the universal trend within
Muslim world literature and the challenge of producing what theatre luminaries,
like Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski and Antonin Artaud, have described as
‘theatre of the invisible made visible’, Khayaal is creating its own brand and
genre of entertainment whose formula of wisdom and humour has won it popular
and critical acclaim, a large culturally diverse audience and international
appeal.
Come and dream with us
in the IslamExpo Theatre in the Knowledge Zone and for more information or to
support our charitable work, visit us at Exhibition Stand EM 64 near the Food Court
in the Great Hall. Alternatively, contact us on:
E-mail:
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Website: www.khayaal.co.uk
Tel/Fax: 01582
535840
IslamExpo Mobile: 07736
716837
Commission or purchase
a performance or drama workshop for your school, conference, fundraising event,
wedding, festival or other special occasion.
Our previous clients
and partners include Shakespeare’s Globe, Muslim News Awards, IslamExpo,
Pricewaterhouse Cooper, Islamia
Primary School,
Zahra Trust, Citizen Organising Foundation, Luton Sixth Form College,
Best of British Islam Festival, High Wycombe District Council, ArRum and many
more.
‘Khayaal Theatre Company is to be applauded for
emphasising the progressive, humanistic and tolerant aspects of Islamic culture
that are, shamefully, rarely presented in the mass media.’
Tom Mellen, The Morning Star
‘a pleasure’ and ‘a refreshing burst of visual creativity’
Time Out
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