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The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution(Oberon Modern Plays)

The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution(Oberon Modern Plays)


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As thousands have been tortured, jailed, maimed or killed by the Syrian regime, The Fear of Breathing is not only a new play based entirely on verbatim reports from inside Syria itself, but is also a hard-hitting evocation of a life or death fight for freedom, experienced from the inside. To uncover these personal stories from the uprising, award-winning journalists Paul Wood and Ruth Sherlock, together with theatre director Zoe Lafferty, travelled into Syria covertly, circumventing the ban on journalists and restrictions on movement for all non-Syrians. They spoke to protesters as well as citizens who love President Bashar al-Assad and are terrified of a future without him. Featuring verbatim scenes, interviews, stories and film footage, The Fear of Breathing is a powerful and profoundly disturbing portrait of a revolution struggling to survive.

About the Author :
Ruth Sherlock has just been named ‘Young Journalist of the Year’ in the 2012 British Press Awards. She has been nominated for the prestigious Gaby Rado Memorial Award, given by Amnesty International for outstanding coverage of human rights. Paul Wood has covered a dozen wars in fifteen years as a BBC foreign correspondent. During the Syrian uprising, he was three times smuggled across the border and into the city of Homs and produced Homs – Journey into Hell for BBC’s Panorama. Zoe Lafferty has worked as a director, assistant director and playwright for theatre in Afghanistan, the UK, New York, Palestine and Europe, and is an Associate Director of the Freedom Theatre Palestine.

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Genuinely revealing - the first-hand testimony is riveting - it leaves one with a heightened awareness of how a basic desire for human freedoms escalated into a sectarian civil war. This project primarily trusts in the words gathered to grip and inform us - it can hardly be bettered - Essential viewing "Fearless" is a word bandied about too much in the field of new playwriting, often meaning little more than the mild bucking of some trend. But genuine courage went into the compiling of The Fear of Breathing - enlightening and horrifying


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781849434195
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Oberon Books Ltd
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Weight: 100 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1849434190
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Oberon Modern Plays
  • Sub Title: Stories from the Syrian Revolution
  • Width: 130 mm


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