The National Theatre today announced its co-production with TARA.
Openning July '09 in the Cottesloe.
In Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album - which opens in the NT Cottesloe in July in a co-production with Tara Arts, directed by Jatinder Verma – young British-Asian Shahid is an anxious young undergraduate who becomes involved in an increasingly fundamentalist Muslim activist group during the Thatcher years in London. Kureishi’s last stage play, Sleep With Me, premiered at the National ten years ago. The author’s best-known works include The Buddha of Suburbia, London Kills Me and My Beautiful Launderette.
I watched it today, really really superb!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to TARA, the National, Kureishi, the casts, everyone!!
Although my hubby was a bit confused at the end.. why did it have to close with a suicide bombing?
The ending in which Shahid's muslim friend said ''I disagree but I understand'' (In reply to Shahid's defending Salman Rushdie) might have been a great closure. In which both parties developed tolerance towards each idea (modern western&radical islam)
Dear Anita
ReplyDeleteThanks for the positive feedback and your comments on the ending. I've passed them on to the Director.
The ending with the bombing is to bring the drama bang up to date, particularly for audiences for whom 1989 is history!