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Hassan Abdulrazzak

HASSAN ABDULRAZZAK

  (1974 - )
Nationality:    Iraqui
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Literary Agent:    The Artists Partnership  

Hassan Abdulrazzak is of Iraqi origin, born in Prague and living in London. He holds a PhD in molecular biology and has worked at Harvard and Imperial College. Hassans first play Baghdad Wedding, was staged at Soho Theatre in 2007 to great acclaim. It went on to have productions in Australia and India and was also broadcast on BBC radio 3. Hassans play The Prophet was performed at The Gate Theatre in 2012 and was based on extensive interviews in Cairo with revolutionaries and soldiers, journalists and cab drivers. More recently he was commissioned by the Kevin Spacey Foundation to write Dhow Under The Sun, a play for 35 young actors, which was staged in Sharjah, UAE (Jan 2015). He was also commissioned by Untold Theatre to write Catalina, the story of the Moorish slave of Catherine of Aragon (Ovalhouse Theatre 1-4 April 2015). His comic monologue play Love, Bombs and Apples was selected out 114 scripts to be part of the PlayWROUGHT3 festival and will be staged at the Arcola Theatre (21-25th July 2015) as part of the Shubbak festival. His short play Lost Kingdom was selected out of 75 scripts to be part of San Francisco's Golden Thread ReOrient 2015 festival. His essays have been published in the Guardian, the Edinburgh Review and Al-Ahram Weekly. His poems have been published in Snakeskin and in We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War edited by Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar. He is currently working on a number of theatre, TV and film projects.

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         603         420 Meteres Below sea level         And Here I Am         Baghdad Wedding         Black Duck         Catalina         Cook & Insurgent, The         Cook & Insurgent, The         Dhow Under The Sun         Evo101         For the Good of Mankind         Kuszib         Lost Kingdom         Love in the Time of Barriers         Love Is On Our Side         Love, Bombs and Apples         Prophet, The         Sderor Cinema         Tale Of Sinbad And the Old Goat, The         Tune is Always Better on the Outside, The         Voluntary Work         You Don't Have to Be American To Get Laid But It Helps

603

603
Four Palestinian men share a cramped prison cell listening to the buses come and go outside. Will the next bus be the one to take them home?

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Original Playwright - Imad Farajin

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translation

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420 Meteres Below sea level

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part of the Paines Plough 'Later' season

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20 min play

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And Here I Am

And Here I Am
A bitter sweet, dark political comedy based on one man's true story and his odyssey in search for identity, And Here I Am is an epic voyage of identity and self-discovery based on Ahmed Tobasi's personal coming of age story. Combining fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, spanning both the first Palestinian intifada and the second, we follow the protagonist through his transformation from resistance fighter to artist, his journey as a refugee from the West Bank to Norway and then back again.

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Developing Artists and Shubbak

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Genre:
dark political comedy

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Baghdad Wedding

Baghdad Wedding
In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It's like in england where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to fuck one of the bridesmaids. That's the way it goes.' From cosmopolitan London to the chaos of war-ravaged Baghdad, this is the comic tale of three friends, torn between two worlds, and a wedding that goes horribly wrong.

Notes:
winner of 2008 George Devine Award

1st Produced:
Soho Theatre, London, Eur >>>     28 Jun 2007

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Soho Theatre and akbar Kurtha

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Black Duck

Synopsis:
The "Black Ducks" programme on You Tube hosted by an Egyptian atheist

Notes:
Part of "Here Is The News From Over There (Over There Is The News From Here)"

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Northern Stage

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Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Catalina

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Interactive, ensemble theatre exploring the relationship between Katherine of Aragon and her Moorish servant Catalina. Foreign lands, marriages, divorce. . . Forbidden faiths simmer amidst riots and religious doctrines in sixteenth-century Europe.

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Untold Theatre

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Drama

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Cook & Insurgent, The

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performed as part of World Routes Academy - Iraq, Live @ Celebrating Sanctuary Festival

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South Bank, London     13 Jun 2010

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new version

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Cook & Insurgent, The

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part of the Paines Plough 'Later' season

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10 min

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dhow Under The Sun

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The city of Dahab and the surrounding area have been devastated by flood. The surviving inhabitants flee to Dhow Camp. Ghalia a gifted young engineer is trying to make a new type of solar panel helped by a cigarette seller

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1st Produced:
Sharjah, UAE     Jan 2015

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commissioned by the Kevin Spacey Foundation

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Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  35 young actors

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Evo101

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in response to a news story about a mother who murdered her disabled daughter and committed suicide after ten years of abuse by a gang of teenagers

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performed as part of Nabokov's Present: Tense (no.12)

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Genre:
30 min play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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For the Good of Mankind

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Performed as part of embryonic? A series of plays about Stem Cells directed and perfomed by the Islington Community theatre and funded by the Biochemical Society

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Charles Darwin House, 12 Roger Street, London Wc1N 2Ju     04 Jun 2010

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15 min

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Kuszib

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Part of Miniaturists 21 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Forest Fringe, Edinburgh     01 Aug 2009

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Lost Kingdom

Synopsis:
The interrogation of Saddam Hussien

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ReOrient Festival, San Francisco     07 Jul 2015

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Contained in: "Arab Stages volume Two Number Two" Spring 2015   

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Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Love in the Time of Barriers

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It was directed by Caroline Jay Ranger as part of an evening of work curated by Lloyd Trott

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Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts (Rada), London     23 Sep 2009

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the text has been published in issue 38 of Banipal. the French translation appeared in issue 18 of siecle 21.   

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15 min monologue

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Love Is On Our Side

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Southwark Playhouse, London     27 Sep 2015

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Love, Bombs and Apples

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Love, Bombs and Apples is the comic and poignant new play from award winning playwright Hassan Addulrazzak (Baghdad Wedding, The Prophet) - a tale of four men, each from different parts of the globe, all experiencing a moment of revelation. A Palestinian actor learns there is more to English girls than pure sex appeal. A Pakistani-born terror suspect figures out what is wrong with his first novel. A British youth suspects all is not what it seems with his object of desire. A New Yorker asks his girlfriend for a sexual favour at the worst possible time. This one man play is extremely funny with a sharp cutting edge for today's multi-cultural Britain.

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AIK Productions

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piece

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Prophet, The

Prophet, The
It's January 28th 2011 and egypt stands on the brink. For three days the streets of Cairo have been pounded by the feet of thousands of protesters marching against the ossified, stagnant regime Hosni Mubarak. But for Layla and Hisham, a young couple living in downtown Cairo, I dictatorial and corrupt government is the only one of their problems. as the world share this, cataclysmically, around them, some long hidden secrets threaten to emerge and tear them apart.

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part of Resist !

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Sderor Cinema

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Gigging4Gazza     31 Aug 2014

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Ten minute play

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Tale Of Sinbad And the Old Goat, The

Synopsis:
Shahrazad needs to survive for just one more night. Can her stories save her? Meet diabolical djinnis, a latter-day Sinbad and a shoe-obsessed dictators wife in this collection of six new plays inspired by recent events in the Middle east and North Africa. From the stirring to the satirical, Metta theatre brings these stories to life with their signature mix of performance, puppetry and original music, creating an Arabian Nights for a modern age.

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part of Arab Nights, a multi-author play by Hassan Abdulrazzak, anonymous, Chirine el Ansary, Ghalia Kabbani, Tania el Khoury & Raja Shehadeh

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Metta Theatre supported by English Touring Theatre

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Genre:
15 min story

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Tune is Always Better on the Outside, The

Tune is Always Better on the Outside, The
Bombings in Gaza summer 2014

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part of "Courting Drama". Eight handpicked writers and directors speed date' to find a new collaborative partner that will help them bring a 20 minute piece of new writing to life.

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Contained in: "Sykes-Picot: The Legacy - Five Modern Plays" published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing 2015   

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Voluntary Work

Synopsis:
Some of the Arab World's most exciting theatre voices respond to an extraordinary time in the region's history through specially commissioned short plays in translation.

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Original Playwright - Laila Soliman. Presented as part of After the Spring: New Short Plays from the Arab World

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translation

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You Don't Have to Be American To Get Laid But It Helps

Synopsis:
Darsh is a philanderer, flying to Vienna on romantic business.

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Based on a short story "Madame Vienna" by Yusuf Idris

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Genre:
Short play

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