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| New London play "Guantanamo Boy" opens this week |
| 2012-01-31 |
| A theater in east London is staging new play "Guantanamo Boy" this week. The production, based on a 2009 novel of the same name, opens on Tuesday at Stratford Circus, located in an area with a large Muslim population. Director Dominic Hingorani said, "Stratford wanted to start making emotionally challenging theatre for a teenage audience and we are in east London with a lot of Asian resonance. It (Guantanamo Bay) obviously has a lot of resonance with people here." Hingorani said his adaptation of the novel looked at Guantanamo through the eyes of a Muslim teenager from Britain who is detained during a family visit to Pakistan because he is suspected of being a terrorist. Although fictional, the novel was inspired by the incarceration of teenagers like Mohammed El Gharani, released in 2009 after more than seven years in captivity, including at Guantanamo. "We are reimagining this experience through a teenagers' eyes. It was very important to keep an eye on the fact that we are taking the audience with us in order that they can engage." Hingorani said. "I am trying to give the audience an experience that is unsettling and intense and to some degree a sense of how violent and upsetting that environment must be," he explained. "Whatever your politics, we are talking about human rights and the consequences of human rights being expendable," Hingorani added. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #9 If I filmed everyone in there. Said I knew who all the actors were and where they lived and there'd be trouble if this continued... It would a) get me arrested. b) make the news. Whereas nothing happens when Islamists do shit. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-01-31 16:32 |
| #8 ...or padding his resume as an applicant for the NYTs culture page. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-01-31 15:54 |
| #7 "Stratford wanted to start making emotionally challenging theatre for a teenage audience and we are in east London with a lot of Asian resonance. It (Guantanamo Bay) obviously has a lot of resonance with people here." Oh, I get it. The director thinks he's found a way to sell some tickets. The man's a whore. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-01-31 14:57 |
| #6 "I am trying to give the audience an experience that is unsettling and intense and to some degree a sense of how violent and upsetting that environment must be," he explained. Inciting the yoots to retaliatory violence, then. Thanks, asshole. "Whatever your politics, we are talking about human rights and the consequences of human rights being expendable," Hingorani added. Huh? Expendable consequences? That statement doesn't make any sense. Must be using the Progressive Truth Generator. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2012-01-31 14:32 |
| #5 "Emotionally Challenged-Youth" "Emotionally Stifled Passive Kinetic Garmet-Youth" |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-01-31 12:38 |
| #4 Is Rage-boy in it? How about suicide-belt boy? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-01-31 11:51 |
| #3 He was a sharia boy She said see ya later boy He wasn't good enough for her Now he's jihadi man Slammin on his head Says your pretty face needs a cloak. He was a sharia boy She said see ya later boy He wasn't good enough for her Now he's a convict Slammin on his pelvic Does your pretty face see what he's worth? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-01-31 11:34 |
| #2 As the play goes on they should demonstrate the horrible over-feeding so typical of death-camps. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-01-31 10:51 |
| #1 It will no doubt be chockabloc with "truths" so "profound" that they only exist in a work of dramatic fiction... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2012-01-31 10:46 |