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The Sun on the Tongue

Etel Adnan

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The fourth volume in PAJ’s Performance Ideas series,The Sun on the Tongue unfolds in an expanding universe of philosophical reflections on love, art, war, nature, and human existence. Etel Adnan, the internationally renowned Arab American writer and visual artist, crosses genres and continents and centuries in her literary texts, plays, poems, and art. Her playsAt A Certain Hour of the Night,Crime of Honor andTolerance are featured here, along with essays on Pina Bausch and Paul Klee, and an interview on her life and work. Her texts have been performed or adapted for theatre, opera, and radio in the U.S. and Europe. Robert Wilson invited her to write the French section of his multi-country opera,the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, in 1984.