Originally to premiere Spring 2020, THE VAGRANT TRILOGY, written by Mona Mansour, delves into the Palestinian struggle for home and identity. In 1967, Adham, a Palestinian Wordsworth scholar, goes to London with his new wife to deliver a lecture. When war breaks out at home, he must decide in an instant what to do—a choice that will affect the rest of his life. The two parts that follow explore alternate realities based on that decision. Each part in the trilogy speaks to the others, together painting a rare and moving picture of Palestinian displacement and a refugee’s life of permanent impermanence. Mark Wing-Davey directs this sweeping new drama about the poetry and pain of losing the place called home.
3hrs, 30 mins (incl. two 15-min intermissions)
April 8th, 2022
May 15th, 2022
By: Mona Mansour
Producer: The Public Theater
Director: Mark Wing-Davey
Lighting: Reza Behjat
Sound: Sinan Refik Zafar
Design: Allen Moyer
Costume: Dina El-Aziz
Cast list: Bassam Abdelfattah (as Adham/Jul Understudy), Tala Ashe (as Abir and Others), Caitlin Nasema Cassidy (as Abir/Jamila Understudy), Ramsey Faragallah (as Ghassan and Others), Osh Ghanimah (as Hamzi and Others), Nadine Malouf (as Jamila and Others), Rudy Roushdi (as Jul and Others), and Hadi Tabbal (as Adham)
Other info: Video design by Greg Emetaz
Accessible entrances, seating, and restrooms. Assistive Listening Devices. ASL interpreted, Open Caption and Audio Descriptions at select performances or on demand by request.
At a crossroads, Adham and his wife must make the unthinkable decision: to take the path home, or to walk away and never return? Watch the tough decision unfold in The Vagrant Trilogy. Get The Vagrant Trilogy tickets in New York on TodayTix.
A Palestinian scholar, Adham, and his wife, Abir, left on a trip so that Adham could present a lecture in London. But, during their trip, they watched war unfold in their home country from afar, and quickly needed to make a decision. The Vagrant Trilogy play, told in three parts, initially explores the present reality for Adham and Abir leading up to that decision. Then, the following two parts serve as an alternate reality, depending upon which path they chose. Despite both roads having their differences, the storylines converge thematically under the overarching experience of being displaced and distraught by war and a refugee crisis.
Playwright Mona Mansour offers a raw and real representation of a family torn by war. The Vagrant Trilogy will have its New York City premiere off Broadway at the Public Theater. Previously, The Vagrant Trilogy was performed at the Mosaic Theater Company in Washington, D.C. as part of their Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival in 2018. Prior to this staging, the three parts were never staged together before.
Mark Wing-Davey directs six actors who play 19 roles across the story, spanning four decades and three generations.
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