On this tenth anniversary of 9-11-2011, we can continue to wring our hands in despair, or we can go see a play that takes us by the lapels and rages, "what are you going to do about it?" You will laugh more than you've laughed in a long time, and then it will make you weep. More than once. You will understand a story in Arabic better than you understand the interpreter. You will say, "never again," to scapegoating, and you might just mean it. That is, if your heart hasn't left your body. But you will be left to figure out who is your Abulkasem.
It's taken a Swedish Arab to make the world look in the mirror. Like a good teacher, Jonas Hassen Khemeri offers us humorous examples, and then he yanks out the rug. Every word contains a meta message, and this bounding word-loving dark comedy is full of them.
The play won an Obie in February, and The Play Company has brought it back with a director Erica Schmidt, and the deeply affecting performances of Francis Benhamou, Nick Choski, Andrew Ramcharan Guilarte, and Bobby Moreno.
Go see Invasion! before the job creators move it to a higher-priced theater.
It's taken a Swedish Arab to make the world look in the mirror. Like a good teacher, Jonas Hassen Khemeri offers us humorous examples, and then he yanks out the rug. Every word contains a meta message, and this bounding word-loving dark comedy is full of them.
The play won an Obie in February, and The Play Company has brought it back with a director Erica Schmidt, and the deeply affecting performances of Francis Benhamou, Nick Choski, Andrew Ramcharan Guilarte, and Bobby Moreno.
Go see Invasion! before the job creators move it to a higher-priced theater.
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