Tuesday 22nd - Saturday 26th February 2005
Directed by Damon Wakelin
"What's the use of stories that aren't even true?"
Adapted from Salman Rushdie's award winning novel, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" is a rollicking rollercoaster of a journey through magical lands in the company of some of the strangest characters you could ever hope to meet.
It is also a celebration of stories; their value, their joy and the need to keep them free.
Adapted for the stage by Tim Supple and David Tushingham, "Haroun & the Sea of Stories" premiered at the National Theatre in 1998.
"A gorgeous mix of the Arabian Knights, Alice, the Wizard of Oz, Start wars and Dungeons and Dragons...adventures galore."
The Times
Salman Rushdie's first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975. His second, the acclaimed Midnight's Children was published in 1981 - it won the Booker Prize and in 1993 was judged to have been the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize for Fiction in the award's 25-year history. The publication in 1988 of his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to accusations of blasphemy against Islam. The orthodox Iranian leadership issued a fatwa against Rushdie on 14 February 1989 - effectively a sentence of death - and he was forced into hiding under the protection of the British government and police. Haroun & the Sea of Stories was written under the shadow of the fatwa.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rushdie.htm
http://www.subir.com/rushdie.html
Salman Rushdie and the Sea of Stories : An interview by Davia Nelson
Surrogate Authorial Figures in Haroun and the Sea of Stories : an article by Mark McDannald, Washington and Lee University