Syrians have always revelled in political theatre which has flourished in Damascus since 1967. But to date there has been very little research on the protest plays written by the Syrians Durayd Lahham b. 1934 and Muhammad alMaghout b. 1934. This book highlights the so far unappreciated merit of these plays which for so long have been unexplored by the world theatre community and which are representative of the new wave of Arab theatrical realization. The author surveys the semitheatrical pheno