简介: A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s metafictional essay, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous chorus of lovers, and this oft-told tale is multiplied. In Club Scheherazade, there is no protagonist, and every song has various versions. Heteronormative dramaturgy is challenged polyphonically and across a range of media: lovers ask each other about threesomes, Grindr contacts and past dates. Pop clichés are twisted, heartache permeates the men’s singing, and poems by Wadih Saadeh are read out while a lover’s dirty laundry is aired. The narrator mischievously tries for a happy ending as her characters exit the story. “If pain could be forgotten through words,” we hear at one point, “no lover would ever have to walk away wounded.”
西格妮·韦弗/亨利·科泽尼/瑞恩·凯利/奥斯汀·尼可斯/卡莉·许洛德/Shannon Eagen/斯科特·贝利/李·加林顿/Madge Levinson/苏珊·鲁坦/丹·巴特勒/埃莱·巴德汉/Patrick Michael Kenney/拉斯蒂·米哈/Dan Wells/Melanie Wilson/David G.B. Brown/Dennis Budziszewski/杰夫·菲尔/特维斯·R·马库姆/Grace Anne Rowan/Lauren Mae Shafer/