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A Practice Made Perfect
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| Text by MM; Location courtesy: Cha Bar | |||||||||||||
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PUBLISHED: Volume 12, Issue 3, Third Quarter 2004
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 Being a lawyer trains you in structure, flow… most importantly, how to edit ruthlessly!
Legal eagle turned wordsmith, Farhad Sorabjee makes a dramatic debut with his gutsy play  Less is clearly more for him. Attracted to terse text and minimal dialogue, better read between their lines, Farhad Sorabjee revels in penning plays with a difference. Enjoying reading and writing "with a style in which things needn't be too explained", the lawyer with a 17-year practice in commercial and corporate litigation has just made a dramatic debut, writing Hard Places. Suggested by a BBC documentary on the Golan Heights with people bordered on opposite sides communicating through megaphones, his story "moves along a different, only partially political track, deeper into the relationships introduced".
The unrelenting realism of this gutsy first offering is to be followed by a novel and two film scripts, one based on British Asians in London. Both have landed in a list of 12, selected by the UK Film Council from 75 submitted scripts. Partial to the sparse lines of such British playwrights as Sarah Kane and Caryl Churchill, Sorabjee remarks, "I haven't seen an awful lot of interesting stuff coming out of America, really." In the tradition of legal eagles turned wordsmiths, John Grisham, Tim Rice and John Mortimer, he holds, "There's a synergy between law and literature. Being a lawyer trains you in structure, flow… most importantly, how to edit ruthlessly!" |
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