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. 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.
Nancy Blum, Maryland Theatre Guide says the play is “timely, entertaining, and profoundly moving”
John Stoltenberg of DC Theatre Arts says it is “an enthralling and challenging production”
and one where “the storytelling is complex and gripping”
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