Untitled. (1-5) - by Nazareth Hassan (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Review Quotes

"Hassan has written a Black litany that is also a Black liturgy. Untitled. (1-5) is a chanting down of Babylon without and Babylon within. It takes the staccato collapses of composure under duress, and drums them into a crazy rhythm. This is a chant that wields laughter against comedy, but preserves the humor within the grotesque. It gradually builds sound into a wave that crashes over any remaining threadbare notions of a sovereign self."--Tavia Nyong'o

"Reading Untitled. (1-5), I felt my eyes playing across the page, even as I could feel the language in my body and hear it, too, in my ear. Hassan is taking the reins, the ruins, of this language, American English, and making new language."--Agnes Borinsky

"What an extraordinary work. I greatly appreciated this audio and literary performance piece as existentialist musing, as self-reflection, as play with the temporal and typographical. Such a delicious, robust offering."--Aleshea Harris

About the Author

Nazareth Hassan is a writer, director, musician, and performer. Performance and theater works include Bowl EP at The Vineyard Theater, Untitled (1-5) at The Shed (text published by 3 Hole Press), VANTABLACK at Theatretreffen Stückemarkt in Berlin, Security Theater at Judson Memorial Church, Practice at Playwrights Horizons, and Memory A at Museo Universitario del Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. Their first interdisciplinary book, Slow Mania, will be published in 2025 by Futurepoem. In 2022-2023, they were the dramaturg at the Royal Court Theatre in London. They were a 2023-25 Jerome Hill artist fellow and the Tow Playwright in Residence at The Vineyard Theatre. Upcoming: Practice at Playwrights Horizons.