Golden Thread Productions presents
ALAA: A FAMILY TRILOGY
A script-in-hand workshop production by Adam Ashraf Elsayigh
Generative Dramaturgy by Salma S. Zohdi
Directed by Evren Odcikin
November 16-17
on Z Space’s Steindler Stage
In 2011, blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah became a leading voice of the Egyptian Revolution by fusing his activism and tech acumen, inadvertently following in his famous family's activist legacy. Since then, he has spent much of the last decade in prison, unlawfully held by a military regime seeking to silence him and his family. Weaving writings and personal testimonials from Alaa and his family matriarchs, ALAA: A Family Trilogy is an epic and ambitious dramatization of a single family’s unwavering resistance at the heart of a nation’s fight for justice. This script-in-hand workshop presentation will focus on Mini-Revolutionaries, the second play in the Trilogy which follows the story of Alaa's family from 2011 to 2014 through the Egyptian Revolution.
ALAA: A Family Trilogy is commissioned by Golden Thread Productions with support from the Gerbode Foundation. This presentation is part of the Z Space Technical Residency Program, supported by the Mellon Foundation.
Cast:
Sofia Ahmad*, Tierra Allen, James Asher*, Nora el Samahy*, Diyar Banna, Nemma Adeni*, Wiley Naman Strasser*, Lawrence Radecker, Nima Rakhshanifar*
Creative Team:
Wesley Apfel* (stage manager), James Ard (sound designer), Max Bowman (projection and video designer), Kate Boyd (lighting designer), Michelle Mulholland (costume stylist)
* Member, Actors’ Equity
