CHICAGO: Set at the end of the Iran-Iraq war is author Hadiya Hussein’s “Waiting for the Past,” a tale that follows a woman searching for the man she loves. In an Iraq that is suffering from endless war, Narjis is stuck in a loveless marriage when she decides to leave her husband in Baghdad and look for Yusef Hassan Omran, her childhood sweetheart who has vanished. Translated
Kate Winslet “nearly did a poo” while on stage as an 18-year-old ingenue performing in a Royal Exchange production of the Joe Orton play What The Butler Saw .
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