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.”
德蒙特·莫罗尼,杰奎琳·比塞特,多米尼克·莫纳汉,克里斯·马尔基,麦克·马科夫,罗尼·吉恩·贝尔维斯,安东尼·斯科迪,葛人杰·海恩斯,加文·沃伦,德文·米歇尔斯,吉尔伯特·格伦·布朗,大卫·圣路易斯,Nancy La Scala,Jonathan Peacy,Sarah Cortez,Cosima Cabrera,Edgar de Santiago,普雷斯利·库克,Brick Patrick,布莱恩·梅