达芙妮·基恩,苏菲·奈丽丝,珀西·海恩斯·怀特,尼克·弗罗斯特,艾丽·斯考比,杨子英,斯蒂芬·卡林,米卡·阿蒙森,迈克尔·科拉斯,贾纳娅·斯蒂芬斯,兰内特·瓦雷,特洛伊·詹姆斯,贾利勒·斯瓦比,蒋如思,朱莉娅·迪扬,Cameron Gordon Norris,Toria Summerville,Louis Adams,梅努卡·萨瓦尔,克里斯蒂娜·萨赫利
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.”
