{"id":20831,"date":"2017-12-07T23:03:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=20831"},"modified":"2017-12-07T23:03:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:03:57","slug":"goats-a-syrian-play-about-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/goats-a-syrian-play-about-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Goats: A Syrian play about the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
Words: Bella Dawe | Subbing: Bernadette Galbraith<\/h6>\n

An unmissable performance for less than \u00a320, Liwaa Yazji presents a different take on Syria using live goats.<\/h3>\n

Gunfire, rumours and propaganda:\u00a0Liwaa\u00a0Yazji’s ‘Goats’<\/em> is an honest and revealing story about\u00a0conflict in Syria from a perspective few have considered.\u00a0Included as part of a project by the Royal Court theatre in\u00a0Sloane\u00a0Square,\u00a0Syrian\u00a0writer\u00a0Yazji\u00a0has truly captured an important take on a war that so many have heard about\u00a0but have\u00a0never understood.\u00a0In\u00a0the play, the families affected by the conflict are themselves confused as to what is happening \u2013 who is fighting, and why?\u00a0Whilst the propaganda machine churns out messages of\u00a0national pride and\u00a0patriotism, some brave citizens start to question what exactly their children are going off to fight or even die for.<\/p>\n

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Image: Johan Persson<\/p><\/div>\n

Set in a\u00a0small town\u00a0riddled with poverty\u00a0as well as bullets, Goats<\/em>\u00a0depicts the true struggle of child soldiers who become\u00a0martyrs\u00a0and what this means for the families they leave behind. Idealists, nationalists and whistle blowers are all given a place on stage, besides some adorable (and somewhat excitable) live goats.<\/p>\n

Focusing on hard-hitting and sometimes upsetting issues,\u00a0Liwaa\u00a0Yazij\u00a0manages to fuse both emotion and comedy;\u00a0it’s hard to decide whether you should laugh or cry, when one of the goats relieves itself on stage right in the middle of a monologue about a community\u00a0torn apart by war. A definite must-see, Goats<\/em> highlights the important theme of truth. When considering\u00a0the current Syrian refugee crisis, the play urges a British audience to consider the terror and confusion happening overseas, outside of the gaze of Western media.<\/p>\n

Goats<\/em> is on at the Royal Court until 30th December – buy tickets here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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