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A London play in an Italian newspaper
English editorial guide title.
A short contemporary theatre item places Look Europe! within the international response to Faraj Sarkohi’s detention.
- Credited to
- Uncredited · il manifesto newsroom
- Publication
- il manifesto
- Source date
- 30 September 1997 · newspaper edition
- Published language
- Italian
- This page
- English source guide
Works discussed
English editorial guide to the original publication. Assessments and recollections remain attributed to their speakers.
Theatre as an intervention
The Italian daily’s theatre brief names Ghazi Rabihavi as the author of Look Europe! and Harold Pinter among the performers at London’s Almeida Theatre. Its immediate subject is the use of a public stage to draw attention to an imprisoned Iranian writer and journalist, Faraj Sarkohi. Source 1
The item connects the play with a letter describing Sarkohi’s interrogation and fear of torture. It is a brief news account, rather than a performance review. The production record supplies the separately established presentation details; the newspaper’s relative reference to Sunday does not, by itself, date a new performance. Source 1
Sources & credits
- il manifesto · Pinter and Look Europe!
Unsigned theatre brief in the 30 September 1997 edition; the archive’s later update is separate from the newspaper date.