To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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The Mother of all Dramas
JAN WOOLF speaks to Dina Ibrahim about the challenge of adapting her father’s novel for the stage
Playwright Dina Ibrahim with a portrait of her grandmother
[Gary Manhime]
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
The Mother of Kamal by Dina Ibrahim
GREAT theatre can be drawn from a novel – especially if there is historical and personal connection.
Imagine the extra resonance if the playwright is the daughter of the novelist. The baton of lived experience, carrying so much politics, handed from father to daughter, from novel to play.
Writer and director Dina Ibrahim (alumnus of the Kiln Theatre New Writers programme) has based her play The Mother of Kamal on her father Fawzi Ibrahim’s novel Um Kamal.
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