Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Love’s ‘Labour’ not a lost cause in Kabul
In the Christian Science Monitor, an article about theater in Afghanistan. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, to be precise. That troubled land wants comedies — but translated into Persian and adapted to omit mention of Russians. (“A mess of Russians left us but of late.”)
Love, however, requires no translation and “the traditional rules of Elizabethan England about love and modesty are very similar to the strict ban on affection in modern Afghanistan.” And problems with papparazzi are similar there, too, as the young star of Osama is finding out.
Posted by Kevin Ashworth at August 31, 2005 11:00 PM
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