Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia, Marcus Youssef

Ali and Ali (eBook, ePUB)

The Deportation Hearings

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this sequel to the hilarious and hard-hitting The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, the agitprop collaborative team of Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Marcus Youssef turns its idiosyncratic brand of political satire to new global realities.

Following the election of U.S. president Barack Obama in 2008, collective optimism for a more tolerant, peaceful, and co-operative post-Bush world spreads to Canada - and to the backroom of Salim's Falafel Shoppe in Toronto. There, Ali Hakim and Ali Ababwa, refugee entertainers from the fictitious, war-torn country of Agraba, are inspired to write a stage play in celebration of the new president's message of "hope and change." The premiere of their Yo Mama, Osbama! (or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Half-Black President) halts abruptly when an RCMP constable arrives at the theatre and arrests the pair for its financial ties to the Agrabanian People's Front, an alleged "terrorist organization" on the Canadian government's watch list.

Continuity becomes more apparent than change when Ali and Ali are swiftly put on trial. As the hapless playwrights try to defend themselves in the farcical deportation hearing that unfolds, racial and cultural stereotypes are invoked - and lampooned - as quickly as dubious evidence is presented. But, in the midst of the biting comedy, more serious questions are raised about the cost for some when we endeavour to protect the "freedoms" of others.

Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Talonbooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780889227835
• Artikelnr.: 40435721

Autorenporträt

Camyar Chai has worked in theatre and film for over twenty years. He is the founder of Vancouver's acclaimed Neworld Theatre. He has worked as a freelance actor, director, and writer, and has also engaged in arts education. In addition to writing plays, Camyar has also written librettos for opera. An award winning theatre maker, he received his Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of British Columbia.

Talon has published his Ali and Ali: The Deportation Hearings and Adventures of Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil, both of which he co-wrote with Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef.