Monday, April 21 at 7:00pm |
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POLITICAL ACTS: The Emerging Arab American Theatre Movement |
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A panel featuring playwrights: |
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 Betty Shamieh |
Next Theatre Company, in collaboration with Silk Road Theatre Project and the Museum of Contemporary Art, produced a high-profile panel featuring the three most potent forces in Arab American theatre today. Playwrights Yussef El Guindi, Heather Raffo and Betty Shamieh – Americans of Egyptian, Iraqi, and Palestinian descent respectively – cametogether for the first time to discuss the politics in their work, their careers as outsider artists, and the political challenges of negotiating the east-west divide. |
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| When: | Monday, April 21 at 7:00pm | |
| Where: | Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago in the first-floor theater. | |
| Admission: | Free and open to the public | |
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Two Play Package
POLITICAL ACTS was part of a broader collaboration between Silk Road Theatre Project and Next Theatre Company, making available a unique two-play package for audiences to engage two riveting plays by Yussef El Guindi and Heather Raffo. February 21 – March 30, 2008 Silk Road Theatre Project produced the world premiere of Yussef El Guindi’s Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat, directed by Patrizia Acerra. May 3 – May 18, 2008 Next Theatre, in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, produced the Chicago-area premiere of Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire, directed by Joanna Settle. Together, the companies offered a $50.00 two play flex package, affording audiences the opportunity to see both plays at a considerable discount.
