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Sulayman Al Bassam's latest play UR is inspired by the ancient Sumerian tablet, The Lamentation for the Destruction of the City of Ur: a historical tablet that laments the destruction of the world's oldest city

A desert. A border. A remote petrol station within earshot of civil war. This vividly imagined twilight zone provides the background for a familial standoff in which the crimes, secrets, and broken loves of one generation make violent claims on the lives of the next as two half-brothers vie for favours and allegiance from their ageing father.