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.”
塞西尔·德·弗朗斯,木村拓哉,亚历山大·卡里姆,莉奥妮·贝尼希,凯丽·考贝特,莎伦·邓肯-布鲁斯特,杰克·格林利斯,平岳大,克里斯塔·科索恩,芭芭拉·苏科瓦,莉迪亚·威尔逊,克拉斯·霍佛-乌姆劳夫,埃迪恩·杰拉里,奥利弗·马苏奇,克拉迪亚·朱尔特,雅各波·奥尔莫·安蒂诺里,Rosabell Laurenti Sellers,Joshua Odjick,Dutch Johnson