CMU School of Drama


Monday, November 04, 2019

Translating Trojan Horses

The Theatre Times: In 2019, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi was asked to translate Trojan Horse, a play by Lung Theatre based on the ‘Trojan Horse’ affair that brought a number of Birmingham schools to the attention of the media in 2014 over the alleged radicalization of their students. In this personal response to the piece, she explores here the complex and contradictory feelings that arose as she set about translating the text into Urdu.

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