Suliman
Character
Also appears as: GHOST OF SULIMAN, Ghost of Suliman, SULIMAN
Sudanese aesthete of Withywood, father of Sheherezade and Fadya, fond of red wine, verse and evidential photography. Trusts law and neighbourliness once too often, and thereafter enjoys the freer mobility of a ghost.
Appears in
Connections
Meets
- Constable Wifebeating-Cokehead arrested by
- Fadya father of (1 passage)
- Fukboi killed by
- Little Shit ← accomplice in killing
- Mr Luvvertory ← makes false accusation against
- Sheherezade father of (1 passage)
- Sleaze ← instigates murder of
Attends
- The Old Disgrace frequents (2 passages)
- Trinity Road Police Station detained at (1 passage)
- Withywood lives in (2 passages)
From the books (6 passages)
(The covered terrace of the The Old Disgrace. Two tables/bench tables. At one of these, SULIMAN is seated. He is drinking red wine, and reading a book, possibly Persian love-poetry. At the other table, MR LUVVERTORY is seated.)
(Withywood. The stage is divided between (a) SULIMAN’s and (b) SLEAZE’s properties, there being between the two a holed fence, and (c) an area of common land. Enter SULIMAN, SHEHEREZADE and FADYA into his property. They water the plants, read poetry. Enter, at different times, LITTLE SHIT, FUKBOI, mob GIMPS into the common area, and SLEAZE into his property, where he straightaway applies his eye to the hole, and voys…
(The covered terrace of the Old Disgrace. CHLAMYDIA at one table. SULIMAN at the other table, again reading poetry rather than bantering with PUBGIMPS or any such vulgar fellows. Enter SLEAZE. Ignoring SULIMAN, he addresses himself to CHLAMYDIA)
And sooth, this widower, this Suliman
(Trinity Road Police Station. CONSTABLE WIFEBEATING-COKEHEAD sits across the table from SULIMAN. One or two POLICE GIMPS are standing guard.)
(Enter SHEHEREZADE & FADYA into SULIMAN’s garden. Enter SLEAZE into his yard, and applies himself to the hole in the fence)