Full casting has been announced for The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes.
The cast includes: Caroline Langrishe (Lydia King), Sara Bahadori (Case Worker/Sahar Husain) and Selva Rasalingam (Kevin/Khaled Al Hamrani). They join the previously announced: Nabil Elouahabi (Carlos Fuentes).
The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes opens at the Arcola Theatre on Tuesday 29th July (previews from 23rd July) and runs until Saturday 16th August 2014.
The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes opens at the Arcola Theatre on Tuesday 29th July (previews from 23rd July) and runs until Saturday 16th August 2014.
Rashid Razaq’s new play is based on an award-winning short story by Hassan Blasim. It is directed by Nicolas Kent, who was Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre from 1984-2012. Designs are by Ellan Parry, lighting by Matt Eagland and sound by Andy Graham.
Salim, an Iraqi refugee, takes on a new identity (Carlos Fuentes) in London after fleeing persecution in Baghdad. He is picked up, and marries a wealthy older woman, who enthusiastically coaches him in the bedroom for his forthcoming citizenship test. But Carlos Fuentes finds that knowing the names of all six of Henry VIII’s wives can neither satisfy his new wife nor turn him into a “Britishman”.
The nightmare of the violence of his past catches up with him, and suddenly he is at the airport, accompanied by a G4 security guard, waiting for a plane to take him back to Baghdad.
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