a monthly reading series
7:30 PM
Monday, September 19th
The 4th Street Theatre
Space Limited: Reservations Suggested
Email: RSVP@Noortheatre.org
I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother
by Amir Nizar Zuabi
Directed By: Erin Mee
Featuring: Sevan Greene, Kathryn Kates, Marjan Neshat, Jesse Presler, Ryan Shams, Ted Sod, Babek Tafti and Sona Tatoyan
I AM YUSUF AND THIS IS MY BROTHER is set in January, 1948. The British Mandate ends, and a new era begins for the state of Palestine. Amidst the chaos, two brothers — the passionate one carrying an unrequited love for the village beauty and the simple one striving to keep their love alive — discover how war transforms their village and makes them refugees from life as they knew it.
Amir Nizar Zuabi is a writer/director, and Artistic Director of ShiberHur Company in Palestine. His recent works include Samson and Delilah, Flanders Opera (Antwerp); Jidariyya, (a stage dramatization of the epic poem by the great Palestinian poet Mahamoud Darwish), National Palestinian Theater, Edinburgh International Festival, and Boffes du Nord; In Prigone Con Vitgenstine, Teatro Colosso (Rome); Forget Herostrates and Autumns Tale, Al Midan (Haifa); Alive From Palestine, Al Kasaba Theater (Ramallah), Tokyo International Festival, Royal Court Theater, The Kennedy Center, and Cairo International Festival, where it won The Best Show in Cartage Theatrical Days; I Am Yusuf and This is My Brother and When the World Was Green for the Young Vic in London where Nizar is also an International Associate. Since 2009, Nizar has been running his own company ShiberHur and with his company has produced I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother, With Great Sorrow, War or More Sneeze and In the Penal Colony. ShiberHur is currently co-producing another show with the Young Vic to premiere London in 2012.
Admission is free, donations are welcome
To Reserve: email us at RSVP@noortheatre.org
Directions: New York Theatre Workshop’s 4th Street Theatre is located at 83 E. 4th Street in the NYTW admin building, between 2nd Ave and Bowery in New York City.
Please join us for light refreshments afterwards, generously provided by our sponsors:
Chateau Musar Wine Generously Donated by Broadbent Selections
If your business would like to sponsor HIGHLIGHT, or any of our upcoming programming, contact us at info@noortheatre.org.
*Noor Theatre is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization as determined by the Internal Revenue Service. All contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. A statement of receipt acknowledging your contribution and exemption eligibility will be sent to you by mail.
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9/19/2011 HIGHLIGHT Reading: I am Yusuf, and This is My Brother
a monthly reading series
7:30 PM
Monday, September 19th
The 4th Street Theatre
Space Limited: Reservations Suggested
Email: RSVP@Noortheatre.org
I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother
by Amir Nizar Zuabi
Directed By: Erin Mee
Featuring: Sevan Greene, Kathryn Kates, Marjan Neshat, Jesse Presler, Ryan Shams, Ted Sod, Babek Tafti and Sona Tatoyan
I AM YUSUF AND THIS IS MY BROTHER is set in January, 1948. The British Mandate ends, and a new era begins for the state of Palestine. Amidst the chaos, two brothers — the passionate one carrying an unrequited love for the village beauty and the simple one striving to keep their love alive — discover how war transforms their village and makes them refugees from life as they knew it.
Directions: New York Theatre Workshop’s 4th Street Theatre is located at 83 E. 4th Street in the NYTW admin building, between 2nd Ave and Bowery in New York City.
Please join us for light refreshments afterwards, generously provided by our sponsors:
Chateau Musar Wine Generously Donated by Broadbent Selections
If your business would like to sponsor HIGHLIGHT, or any of our upcoming programming, contact us at info@noortheatre.org.
*Noor Theatre is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization as determined by the Internal Revenue Service. All contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. A statement of receipt acknowledging your contribution and exemption eligibility will be sent to you by mail.