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    YOUNG PEOPLE’S CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS
around this production co-ordinated and run by
    GILLIAN CHRISTIE (Workshop coordinator)
    Gillian worked with Nicolas Kent as Education Director at the Tricycle Theatre for over 12 years delivering a variety of creative projects and workshops for children and young people. In addition to facilitating creative writing workshops, she is project leader for a local inter-generational community event leading to Black History Month, and co-ordinating a personal history project for Age UK, both based in Islington.
    LUCY POPESCU (Workshop Artistic Director)
    Lucy Popescu is a writer, arts critic and creative writing teacher with a background in literature, theatre, and human rights. She is a volunteer mentor with Freedom from Torture’s writing group, Write to Life. She runs regular writing workshops in north London and is experienced in inspiring, developing and shaping others’ creative work. Lucy is the author of The Good Tourist and has edited various books including refugee writer Jade Amoli-Jackson’s Moving a Country , Write to Life’s collection of refugee writing, Body Maps , and the PEN anthology Another Sky .

THE NIGHTMARES OF CARLOS FUENTES

Rashid Razaq
    THE NIGHTMARES
OF CARLOS FUENTES
    Based on the short story by Hassan Blasim

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    Based on the short story © Hassan Blasim, 2014
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Characters
    CARLOS FUENTES (30s)
    LYDIA KING (50s)
    CASE WORKER/SAHAR HUSAIN
    KEVIN/KHALED AL HAMRANI

ONE
    August 2007 .
    A hotel room. A double bed. A chair towards the foot of it. On a bedside table there is a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket .
    CARLOS , wearing a hotel dressing gown, is in bed, handcuffed to a bedpost. LYDIA , wearing a slip, is on her hands and knees looking for the key to the handcuffs. Her dress is draped over the chair. A pair of stilettos lie on the floor along with CARLOS ’ discarded clothes and shoes .
    CARLOS is pointing to a spot on the floor with his foot.