Play
Look Europe!
An English play script concerning the detention of journalist Faraj Sarkohi.
The work
The University of Leeds work record identifies an English play script composed in 1997. It concerns Faraj Sarkohi, the Iranian journalist detained in 1996. Source 2
At the Almeida reading, the work passed between several voices: the journalist, a security man, a secretary and a tramp. The official Pinter archive preserves their performers and Gari Jones’s directing credit. Source 1
Malu Halasa’s obituary of Nilou Mobasser identifies her as the play’s translator in 1997. Halasa also remembers Mobasser, Rabihavi and Pinter appearing at the Southbank Centre with Salman Rushdie and Doris Lessing to discuss freedom of expression. Her personal account supplies a translation credit and another public setting for the work. Source 23
Production and reading history
- Staged reading
5 October 1997 · Recorded in the official Pinter archive
- Historical reading announcement
Announced for 23 October 2009 · Announced by the organiser
Sources and distinctions
Harold Pinter · acting for the stage
Official retrospective: Almeida reading on 5 October 1997, Gari Jones directing, with named cast.
University of Leeds · Look Europe!
Work record: English play script, composition in 1997, concerning Faraj Sarkohi.
Human Rights House · Look Europe!
Announcement published 13 October 2009 for a reading on 23 October at Amnesty UK.
Malu Halasa · Nilou Mobasser obituary
Retained republication of Halasa’s obituary. Attributes the 1997 translation of Look Europe! to Mobasser and connects it with that year’s Almeida presentation. This is an obituary attribution, separate from the official archive’s acting and directing credits.