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Making of Zahhak During Covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Engin Ozsahin (Music Director)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Some time in late December, 2019 sitting in a warm Boston pub with members of Boston Experimental Theatre, celebrating an intensive and exhilarating<\/span> \u2018IsNotThatAnymore<\/a>\u2018 performance, Vahdat Yeganeh (founder of BETC) asked me if I\u2019d be interested in being the musical director of his new project called \u2018Zahhak\u2019. Now, sitting in my Istanbul room, listening to Sam Harris\u2019 Interludes, and three weeks away from premier of<\/span> Zahhak<\/a>, I wanted to share a short journal of how we (as in the creators; Vahdat, Donya and myself) managed to come to this point, from December 2019 to March 2021.”<\/span> Read More <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On The Practice of the Dialogue of Civilizations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jared Wright <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“M(O)ther will be the 5th performance\/experiment BETC has undertaken under the \u201causpiciously\u201d named project \u201cThe Dialogue of Civilizations\u201d\u2014a name that invokes and indicts the grand thoughts of huge swaths of humanity.  In my imagination the phrase conjures the pillars of our temples and minarets of our mosques bellowing at each other, \u201cYou are wrong!\u201d  The image holds within it the underlying assumption of all civilizations\u2014that they are bigger than us<\/strong>,  greater than us<\/strong>.  It feels as though the titans themselves must wrestle with each other to keep such a dialogue in play\u2014Gilgamesh and Prometheus grappling on the fault lines of tectonic plates”<\/span> Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cathartic Cruelty<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By Jared Wright<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  “Tragedy,\u2026 produces its effect even without movement; its quality is apparent from a mere reading\u2026 It offers verisimilitude when read no less than when performed.\u201d Read More <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beer and Dialogue Among Civilizations<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By Ben Howe <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   “Perhaps six months or so before Vahdat Yeganeh proposed his Dialogue Among Civilizations he and I had spent an evening together listening to music, waxing philosophical, and sharing Belgian beer” Read More…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Making of Zahhak During Covid-19 by Engin Ozsahin (Music Director) “Some time in late December, 2019 sitting in a warm Boston pub with members of Boston Experimental Theatre, celebrating an intensive and exhilarating \u2018IsNotThatAnymore\u2018 performance, Vahdat Yeganeh (founder of BETC) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonexperimentaltheatre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonexperimentaltheatre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonexperimentaltheatre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonexperimentaltheatre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonexperimentaltheatre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bostonexperimentaltheatre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/bostonexperimentaltheatre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2310\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonexperimentaltheatre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}