ExPats Theatre
a small theatre grappling with big ideas
September 23 – October 15, 2023 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center
After their mother’s death, the adult twins Simon and Janine are asked to search for their father and brother in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. As each of them navigates the clues left behind, they discover their mother got pregnant as a teenager and had to give up the child. Mother Nawal spent her lifetime searching for this son, while navigating a country torn apart by civil war. As the narrative comes to a dramatic conclusion, Lebanese-Quebecois playwright Wajdi Mouawad uses the search to tell the story of a family’s efforts to come to grips with its past.
Buy your tickets at https://www.atlasarts.org/events/scorched/
Nancy Blum of Maryland Theatre Guide says the show is “timely, entertaining, and profoundly moving”
John Stoltenberg of DC Theatre Arts says it is “an enthralling and challenging production”
and a play where “the storytelling is complex and gripping”
Photo Credits: DJ Corey Photography
Top: Neagheen Homaifar, Ahmad Kamal, Steve Lebens
Middle: Ramsey Zeitouney, Lisa Hill-Corley, Hilary Kacser
Bottom: Deema Turkomani, Melan Perez, George Kassouf
Emel Haddad
Shana Laski (understudy)
Playwright: Wajdi Mouawad
Translator: Linda Gaboriau
Director: Karin Rosnizeck
Assistant Director: Shana Laski
Stage Manager: Caroline Johnson
Lighting Designer: Ian Claar
Projections Designer: Hailey LaRoe
Costume Designer: Jeremy Pritchard
Set Designer: Simone Schneeberg
Movement/Fight/Intimacy: Natasha Mirny
Technical Assistant: Laura Schlachtmeyer
Improvising Musician: Tina Chancey
Music Advisors: Bari Biern & Scott Sedar
Expats Theatre Founder Karin Rosnizeck is a theatre artist who has performed in and directed numerous shows around D.C. Before coming to the US, she worked for more than a decade in transatlantic relations and cross-cultural dialogue. She holds an M.A. in American/English and French Literature from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. She was an Artist in Residence at the Kennedy Center Reach in 2023.
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