New York Theatre Workshop: ALAA: A Family Trilogy
ALAA: A Family Trilogy - a work-in-progress reading of Mini-Revolutionaries
Location
Theater on Currier, 4 Currier Place, Hanover, NH
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Registration required
A historical epic dramatizing the Egyptian Revolution and the military coup to follow through the life of Egypt's most prolific political prisoner and the family he came from.
Written by Adam Ashraf Elsayigh
Directed by Shadi Ghaheri
In 2011, blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah gained prominence by fusing his activism and tech acumen, making him one of the Egyptian Revolution's leading youth voices. But Abd El-Fattah has spent much of the last decade in Cairo's prisons, unlawfully imprisoned by the state's resurgent military regime in an attempt to silence him… to destroy his spirit and mind.
The play juxtaposes physical storytelling and projections with Abd El-Fattah's testimonials and interviews conducted with Alaa's family matriarchs.
Location
Theater on Currier, 4 Currier Place, Hanover, NH
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Registration required
