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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 filmmaker 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.
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 filmmaker 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.
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"'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