40 stories by "Marina Johnson"
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson. Hosts Marina Johnson and Nabra Nelson discuss Ottoman theatre, emphasizing its significance in global theatre history.
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson. Hosts Marina Johnson and Nabra Nelson talk about Egyptian playwright Tawfiq al-Hakim and his "unstageable" classic play People of the Cave.
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson. Audiences pack houses to see stories about forbidden love.
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson. ​​In this episode, hosts Nabra Nelson and Marina Johnson discuss the oldest surviving play, The Triumph of Horus.
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Jeries AbuJaber. How can theatre make an impact in moments of crisis?
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Erdem AvÅŸar. How can we think of queerness as a form of political intervention? In this episode, we talk with Erdem AvÅŸar about Turkish theatre, queer …
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Kareem Fahmy. This season, we have talked about what it means to create characters who break out of boxes and create new queer representations.
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Lama El Homaïssi, Sarah Bitar. This season, we further complicate notions of MENA womanhood by exploring the additional intersection of queerness in femme…
By Marina Johnson. Affinity spaces have been an undercurrent of discussion across the three seasons of Kunafa and Shay.
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson, Zeyn Joukhadar, Raphael Amahl Khouri. MENA cultures are deeply familial with a strong connection to home, defined geographically and through close family bon…
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Mike Mosallam, Amin El Gamal. Film reaches a larger public than theatre due to the way it is produced and disseminated. In this way, it has a large and lasti…
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson, Sivan Battat. Activism and storytelling often go hand in hand. What does it mean for queer art and activism to take center stage?
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson, Hamed Sinno. Is art inherently political? Must artists consider sociopolitics in the development of their work? Hamed Sinno's art has been constantly and pub…
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson, Bazeed ., Pooya Mohseni. Queer SWANA theatremakers are constantly breaking out of boxes. Even within queer and/or SWANA spheres, some artists are pushing bou…
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson, Adam Elsayigh. In this episode, playwright and dramaturg Adam Ashraf Elsayigh joins co-hosts Nabra Nelson and Marina Johnson to unpack what it means to put q…
