Kurd play adds voice to Mideast anger
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ARBIL — A play whose plot took actors and audience alike across Iraq’s Kurdish capital of Arbil this week delivered a stinging portrait of the northern region’s leaders as power-mad and greedy.
When Karukh Ibrahim’s 90-minute production climaxed outside the Kurdistan region’s parliament building, it was the 28-year-old director’s way of adding his voice to protests that have raged against entrenched rulers throughout the Middle East.
“Qabristan,” or “The Cemetery” in Kurdish, started at a park in the centre of Arbil and shifted locations in the city as the young hero in search of his mother and an old woman looking for her son were pitted against elitist offiicals.
From the Sami Abdul Rahman public park, the play shifted to the journalists’ guild headquarters and went on to the ministry of religious affairs before concluding in front of parliament, all with the audience in tow..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110224com7.html
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