{"product_id":"9781474244503","title":"Fireworks : Al' ab Nariya","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFireworks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Dalia Taha\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere's no-one in the streets but us. You run that way and I'll run this way. Whoever gets back to the front door first without getting shot, wins.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a Palestinian town eleven-year-old Lubna and twelve-year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege intensifies outside, fear for their safety becomes as crippling as the conflict itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDalia Taha's play offers a new way of seeing how war fractures childhood. \u003ci\u003e Fireworks \u003c\/i\u003e(Al'ab Nariya) is part of International Playwrights: A  Genesis Foundation Project and received its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 12 February 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A frighteningly convincing picture of the tragedy of lost innocence.” —\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dalia Taha's play offers a refreshingly oblique perspective on the conflict in Gaza.” —\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerfully written” —\u003ci\u003eStage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Taha's writing, beautifully translated by Clem Naylor, is bracingly naturalistic, immersing us fully in her characters' tense, circumscribed lives through a series of vignettes.” —\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Relentless yet delicate, beautiful but grim. The combination is dizzying and destabilising . . . What Taha does brilliantly is convey the precarity of life in Palestine, then trace its over-arching psychological and philosophical impact.” —\u003ci\u003eWhatsOnStage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Quietly devastating” —\u003ci\u003eTime Out London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781474244503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40595662373070,"sku":"9781474244503","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781474244503","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}