The Night of the Tailor’s Execution

Description

The play “The Night of the Tailor’s Execution” adopts a dark comedy tone, set in a bygone era characterized by chaos and an undefined geography. It carries a symbolic atmosphere that explores the duality of power and justice within a theatrical space saturated with conflicting laws and decrees. The rebellious tailor becomes a symbol of the ordinary person threatened with annihilation through no fault of their own before the prevailing system, amidst the ambiguity and shortcomings of these decrees in applying justice.

With this work, Al-Sanousi—winner of the Arabic Booker Prize—continues his literary project of exploring the relationship between the individual, the established order, and society, this time through a theatrical text, after becoming known for his novels such as “The Bamboo Stalk,” “My Mother Hessa’s Mice,” and the “Journeys of the City of Clay” trilogy.