Colloquial Arabic theater reached Egypt’s elite audiences from 1870

Evidence

Sanü`a’s plays were performed in colloquial Arabic, and often in front of audiences that included the khedive’s circle, foreign dignitaries, and the highest echelons of Egyptian society. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 315

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sanü`a founded colloquial Arabic theater that staged Egyptian identity
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Sanü`a founded colloquial Arabic theater that staged Egyptian identity