Taha

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This is a lyric tale about the lives of the Israeli lyricist Taha Muhammad Ali, composed and played by Amer Hlehel. July 1-16, 2017. The author and performer Amer Hlehel had a close relationship with Taha Muhammad Ali. The 2017 campaign features Taha, the history of the Israeli poetic Taha Muhammad Ali. For more information about our 2017 seasons, please visit What's On Stage.

The line-up 2017 contains Taha, composed and played by Amer Hlehel.

Taha, Young Vic, London, review: the development of a paleidonist from Palestine

A tender, touching play that introduces the lives and works of Israeli writer Taha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011), composed and directed by Amer Hlehel. Saffuriyya was a Galilean town near Nazareth. During the nights he nurtured the insatiable appetite of his self-taught, trained himself in classic Arabian poesy and learned to learn to speak English.

There are excerpts from the poetry in Arabic with captions in a canvas. When Taha compared his poetical approach to billiard ("You are aiming over here.... to hit there") and when he comes closer to the political world, he tends to come from the strange corner of one' s own experiences, which are made with ironic, unyielding openness.

It is as if Taha's felt obligation to sensually conjure up the past and follow the emotive traits of bereavement would have given him no room for hate and theatricality. Poetic effects are all the stronger for the wildness and self-loathing of the treatments. He who always thought he was a frustration for his dad is growing into the one who finally estimates why it admired him instead of hurting him, refusing to give mortal advice:

"Taha, your dreams are greater than all the last words I can give you." Taha finds the last scene here on the scene of a London poesy fair. Laughing with a absurd misfortune with his portfolio, the public is silence by the reproduction of his poem'Revenge', which (culminating in a departure from the norm) is in Arabic with British overtitles.