Click here!

Damascus Aleppo

Damascus Aleppo

Ayman is a 55 year old psychiatrist. His homosexual son has disappeared and as a result his home life is falling apart. Then Ayman starts counselling the man who he believes was having a relationship with his son. Read more …

An exploration of homosexuality, the family and the corrosive facades of middle class Damascene life.


The critical consensus

The show's slow burn pace promises depths it never realises. When you strip away all the Pinteresque pauses and narrative links between patient and doctor and husband and wife, what you're left with is essentially a gay-themed episode of Middle EastEnders.

***(*)(*)Alan Chadwick, The Herald, 09/05/2012

The play descends into some pretty thin domestic melodrama, as punches are thrown, and predictable insults exchanged; and thanks to the sketchiness of the characterisation, I was left with only a faint sense of the Syrian society that made these characters, and of the vital choices that society now faces, after a year of bloody conflict.

***(*)(*)Joyce McMillan, 09/05/2012

A fascinating and thought-provoking production.

***(*)(*)Thom Dibdin, Annals of Edinburgh Stage, 15/05/2012

The piece felt didactic and a bit confusing.

***(*)(*)Irene Brown, Edinburgh Guide, 15/05/2012

Where and when?

A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday May 7, 2012, until Saturday May 12, 2012. More info: http://playpiepint.com

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday May 15, 2012, until Friday May 18, 2012. More info: www.traverse.co.uk

Comments: 0 (Add)

To post a comment, you need to sign in or register. Forgotten password? Click here.

Find a show


Search the site


Find us on …

Find us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterFind us on YouTube

Click here!