简介: 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.”
贡萨洛·沃丁顿,克里斯塔·法亚特,Cláudio da Silva,陈浪溪,Jorge Andrade,约翰·佩德罗·瓦斯,João Pedro Bénard,特丽莎·马德鲁加,Joana Bárcia,曼努埃拉·库托,迪奥哥·多瑞亚,Giacomo Leone,André Lourido,阿梅瑞科·席尔娃,赵嘉妮