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.”
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K·J·阿帕,英迪娅·埃斯利,斯科特·阿金斯,詹姆斯·瑞马尔,西德尼·帕克,阿纳斯塔西亚·齐卡那瓦,吉米·卡明斯,艾莉·康纳尔,Devon Diep,Joseph Ramah,帕特里克·M·沃尔什,Pamela Figueiredo,Allie Marshall,Brooklyn Brailsford,Christopher Foley
维尔日妮·埃菲拉,奥玛·希,格莱高利·嘉德波瓦,佩曼·莫阿迪,艾莉莎·拉索斯基,Emmanuel,Barrouyer,Anne-Pascale,Clairembourg,Anne-Gaëlle,Jourdain,Cécile,Rebboah,塞德里克·维埃拉,Thierry,Levaret,奥罗拉·布鲁坦,Gwenaël,Clause,Damien,Abysique,Tadrina,Hocking,Keyvan,Khojandi,Yeelem,Jappain
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Alexander Anderson,Emma Cole,Joseph Coleman,Tom Gaskin,King Gayle,Toby Goodger,Ellis Jones,Hannah Khalique-Brown,Duncan Lacroix,Jessica Zerlina Leafe
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