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A desert. A border. A remote petrol station within earshot of civil war. This vividly imagined twilight zone provides the background for a familial standoff in which the crimes, secrets, and broken loves of one generation make violent claims on the lives of the next as two half-brothers vie for favours and allegiance from their ageing father.

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Based on the fables of "Kalila wa Dimna", one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Locating Ibn Al-Muqaffa's work in its original historical context, this drama, part history, part political fable, explores the creation of these tales amidst the tragedy that unfolds around the author himself.

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Sulayman Al Bassams latest play UR is inspired by the ancient Sumerian tablet, The Lamentation for the Destruction of the City of Ur: a historical tablet that laments the destruction of the worlds oldest city.