The fourth volume in PAJ's Performance Ideas series, The Sun on the
Tongue unfolds in an expanding universe of philosophical reflections on
love, art, war, nature, and human existence. Etel Adnan, the
internationally renowned Arab American writer and visual artist, crosses
genres and continents and centuries in her literary texts, plays, poems,
and art. Her plays At A Certain Hour of the Night, Crime of Honor
and Tolerance are featured here, along with essays on Pina Bausch and
Paul Klee, and an interview on her life and work. Her texts have been
performed or adapted for theatre, opera, and radio in the U.S. and
Europe. Robert Wilson invited her to write the French section of his
multi-country opera, the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is
down, in 1984.