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Ignorance/Jahiliyyah

  • Steve Waters
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1940s / WWII, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9781848422957

An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.

1949. Small town Colorado. A group of regular American students struggle to accept a foreigner in their midst; their unthinking behaviour will have terrible consequences that are to change world history. In London, sixty years later, a university professor's work analysing those consequences takes on a frightening personal dimension when Layla Ahmad walks into his office...

Steve Waters' play Ignorance/Jahiliyyah was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2012.

Premiere Production: Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London, 2012

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F

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An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.

1949. Small town Colorado. A group of regular American students struggle to accept a foreigner in their midst; their unthinking behaviour will have terrible consequences that are to change world history. In London, sixty years later, a university professor's work analysing those consequences takes on a frightening personal dimension when Layla Ahmad walks into his office...

Steve Waters' play Ignorance/Jahiliyyah was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2012.

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