简介: A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s metafictional essay, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous chorus of lovers, and this oft-told tale is multiplied. In Club Scheherazade, there is no protagonist, and every song has various versions. Heteronormative dramaturgy is challenged polyphonically and across a range of media: lovers ask each other about threesomes, Grindr contacts and past dates. Pop clichés are twisted, heartache permeates the men’s singing, and poems by Wadih Saadeh are read out while a lover’s dirty laundry is aired. The narrator mischievously tries for a happy ending as her characters exit the story. “If pain could be forgotten through words,” we hear at one point, “no lover would ever have to walk away wounded.”
吉莲·安德森,凯莉·霍威,比莉·派佩,卢夫斯·塞维尔,萝玛拉·嘉瑞,伊芙·海因德,理查德·古尔丁,加文·斯派克,蒂姆·本廷克,罗非洛·迪格托勒,迪韦恩·托马斯,保罗·帕波维尔,Nigel Finnissy,泰·赫尔利,Theresa Godly,Jordan Kouamé,Daniel Charles Doherty,Nicholas A. Newman,Mielé Houska-Mitchell,Poppy Beck