''Baghdad Wedding'' is the first

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by Hassan Abdulrazzak. It premiered at the

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in 2007, and was

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. The play touches on the experience of three

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is who return to their country after the overthrow of

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. A recording of this play was broadcast on

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on January 20, 2008. The Company B production ran from February 12, 2009 to March 22, 2009 at the

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References

External links

Soho Theatre's
official Baghdad Wedding page
Playtext
published by Oberon Modern Plays, 2007 {{Meyer-Whitworth Award 2007 plays Iraqi fiction Fiction set in the 2000s Plays set in London Baghdad in fiction