WORLD PREMIERE Cockpit Theatre London, 01 September 1994 SOHO THEATRE COMPANY

SHAZAH.......................Anna Savva CARLOS......................Jonathan Arun DIRECTOR...................Burt Caesar DESIGN........................Tom Piper LIGHTING......................Jason Taylor SOUND......................Richard Heacock

PLACE A bombed out block of flats in West Beirut, Lebanon TIME   Between June 1982 and February 1983

TIME OUT CRITICS' CHOICE "Michele Celeste's hostage play is an intriguing black comedy that thrives on the tension between an Arab woman and her Spanish kidnap victim."

WRITER'S NOTE (from the world premiere programme)

"My goat original inspiration goes back to 1943 when Neapolitan women captured routed Germans to make up for loss of husbands and sons transported by the Nazis. When a documentary on British television brought to my attention the plight of some Arab Women, desperate enough to kidnap someone to get their relatives back, the play was born."

WHAT'S ON MAGAZINE - London "My Goat approaches human cruelty and weakness humanistically, placing people under too close a scrutiny to allow for broad judgmentalism. In the process of entertaining, these plays succeed in humanising evil through its everyday absurdity and pathos. Celeste wanted to invest My Goat with those qualities which, to many minds, made his Hanging the President the most powerful new play of 1988. They are qualities which many playwrights try to place naturally on the stage but fail. One the writer calls "humour in desperation"; the other, its graver corollary, "the transcendent tenacity of hope." Sam Willets.

The goat's name? Emma (Poster of the Soho Theatre Company production)   "A little dynamo of a play." The Stage

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