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.”
塔伦·埃哲顿,安娜·索菲亚·海格尔,杰米·伯纳黛特,Goldie Tom,Kiko Sanchez,Loren Anthony,杨罗布,敖德萨·阿德隆,大卫·莱昂斯,崔维斯·汉默,Rebecca Hill Casey,Conrad R. Padilla,埃德加·达马提安,约翰·卡洛·林奇,马特·罗扎克,基思·雅各,圣地亚哥·瑟甘拉,瑞恩·德昆塔尔,安迪·卡斯特利奇,弗雷迪·马丁内斯