Goats

Liwaa Yazji

Goats
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
23 November 2017
Pages
160
ISBN
9781848427204

Goats

Liwaa Yazji

‘Has anyone ever told the truth? Has anyone ever demanded it? Does anyone want it? Does anyone even need it?’

In a small town in Syria, soldiers are celebrated as heroes and grieving families are nourished on propaganda.

As coffins pile up, a local party leader decides on a radical compensation scheme: a goat for each son martyred.

Goats is a major new work by Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker Liwaa Yazj, translated by Katharine Halls.

Developed as part of the Royal Court International Department’s long-term project with writers from Syria and Lebanon, the play premiered

at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, on 24 November 2017, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.

‘Disturbing, bitterly funny and caustically angry… a painful and original piece about the terrible price of conflict and oppression’
- Financial Times

‘Exposes the mixture of grotesquerie and cruelty that are aspects of civil war’
- Guardian

‘Compelling… a darkly humorous lens through which to examine the messy, multi-sided, multi-storied conflict that is the Syrian Civil War’
- Exeunt Magazine

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