Fall Reading Series
Monday, September 26th
3:00 PM, 7:30 PM
83 East 4th Street, 3rd Floor
RSVP@noortheatre.org*
*Reserve to guarantee your seat. Space is limited. Spots available for 3pm and a waitlist available for 7:30pm.
Dead Are My People
by Ismail Khalidi
Directed by Charlotte Brathwaite
With Music by Hadi Eldebek
Featuring Doug Chapman, Peter Ganim, Nadine Malouf, Rocco Sisto, Hadi Tabbal, and Chinaza Uche
Noor's first full-length play commission! Fleeing the famine-stricken mountains of Lebanon during World War I, Nicola makes the journey to the U.S. Once there, he hopes to track down his relative Tanios who emigrated years before. Following information from an old letter, Nicola comes to Lakewood, a small town in the Deep South. Finding few traces of his kin besides Tanios’ peddler cart and the conflicting information of townspeople, Nicola must ultimately navigate the treacherous lines, both real and imagined, of the Jim Crow South. Grappling with the legacies of white supremacy, immigration and assimilation, Dead Are My People is an unexpected journey to the core of American experience.
Please join us for refreshments after each reading, courtesy of our sponsors, Lagunitas Brewing Company and Manousheh.
