Now Touring - Theatrical Production
the Last 15 Seconds
Using movement, dance, video, vocals and text, this project explores the topic of terrorism. It starts from the tragic death of Syrian-American filmmaker Mustapha Akkad and his daughter Rima in a series of co-ordinated attacks that hit three prominent hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman in 2005. The work constructs an imagined physical and verbal dialogue between Mustapha Akkad and Rawad Jassem Mohammad Abed, the suicide bomber who carried out the explosion. The work also looks at the imagined lives and memories of both the victim and his killer as they revisit each other's lives after their fatal encounter.
Now Touring - Theatrical production
Seasons of Immigration
Laughter, tears and triumphs.all in one suitcase! Immigrants arrive at the airport, pass through customs, tour Niagara Falls, experience Canadian showers, shop at the giant superstore, take ESL classes, drink Tim Hortons coffee, apply for jobs, work in factories, fight with their wives and children, and end up in the elevator going up the CN Tower! This is the story of people trapped in 'transition.'
Available for Touring - Theatrical Production
Exit Strategy
Motivated by Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize speech Art, Truth, and Politics, the play follows the journeys of war refugees living in Canada. Using movement, dance, storytelling, ritual, live testimony, music and video, this production raises the question of global responsibility.
Now Touring - Theatre for Social Change
Across the Veil
Based on research and submissions detailing personal incidences of hate crimes experienced by members of the Somali-Muslim Community in Etobicoke, Across the Veil portrays, identifies, and engages audiences into contemplating, the issues related to hate crimes in Canada. This 20 minute piece is made up of vignettes which depict incidences of hate crimes and social intolerances as accurately as possible, but in a non-intimidating and at times humorous fashion.
Now Touring - Theatre for Social Change
Other End of the Line
This is a twenty-minute theatre piece based on research about the barriers that face immigrants and people of cultural minorities from accessing the Canadian Mental Health system and the challenges that this system encounter in response to cultural diversity. Through a mix of light-hearted and poignant scenes, accompanied by live drumming and vocals, the piece highlights the disconnect between the under- resourced, overwhelmed and highly institutionalized and medicalized Mental Health system on one hand, and the cultural communities that do not identify with, understand, or trust the system on the other. The play identifies issues of immigration, including, language barriers, lack of social support, cultural differences and loss of credentials as main reasons behind high stress levels and other mental health problems.