Madah-Sartre
| Madah-Sartre: The Kidnapping, Trial, and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir | ||||||||||||||
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| Written by | Alek Baylee Toumi | |||||||||||||
| Characters | Jean Paul Sartre Madah Simone de Beauvoir Chief Chador Chadorettes | |||||||||||||
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| Subject | Islamists kidnap Sartre and de Beauvoir, holding them captive while trying to convert them to Islam | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Drama | |||||||||||||
| Setting | Algeria 1993, shortly after assassination of Tahar Djaout | |||||||||||||
Madah-Sartre is a play by Alek Baylee Toumi about a fictional abduction by Islamists of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Algeria in 1993, and attemps by these Islamists to convert their captives to Islam.
Characters
- Main characters
- Jean Paul Sartre
- Simone de Beuavoir
- Madah (Islamist, leader of a band of Islamist thugs)
- Chief Chador (Madah's female counterpart)
Secondary characters
PlotAct 1It is 1993 in Algeria and Islamists have just assassinated Tahar Djaout. Jean Paul Sartre (died 1980) and Simone de Beauvoir (died 1986) return to earth from the afterlife to attend the funeral of Djaout. While they are enroute to the funeral, Islamists abduct them. The Islamists hold their intellectual guests captive and begin sessions of trying to convert Sartre and de Beauvoir to Islam. Act 2Scene OneScene TwoPerformancesIntroductionJames D. Le Sueur wrote the introduction to the English edition of the play. Le Sueur is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of several books on Algeria. His most recent publication is "Between Terror and Democracy: Algeria Since 1989," published by Zed Books in March 2010. ThemesThis play includes characters who support intellectual freedom and who challenge ideas detrimental to human well being with better ideas (rather than with violence). ReferencesToumi, Alek Baylee, Madah-Sartre: The Kidnapping, Trial, and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Lincoln: Unversity of Nebraska Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8032-1115-5 [1] External Links
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