Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings
TORONTO PREMIERE
Created by Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef
Directed by Guillermo Verdecchia
Performed by Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia, Anita Majumdar and Raugi Yu
Factory Theatre Studio, Toronto
September 29 – October 16 @ 8 PM
Matinees: October 3, 10 & 17 @ 2 PM
No performances Oct 4, & 11
Preview September 28 @ 8 PM
Tickets: Factory Theatre Box Office : 416-504-9971
Ali and Ali creators turn their idiosyncratic brand of post-identity satire to the whole new world: the global economy has tanked (sort of), the President of the World’s middle name is Hussein. In Canada, the G20 debacle puts downtown Toronto under martial law, Canadian citizens are regularly deported to indefinite detention and torture, and five Arab/Muslim men continue to be held without charges and access to the evidence against them. Must be time for Ali and Ali...
Come early, get a FREE TASER. Presented with funding from Canada’s Conservative Government.
“Filled with laughs and lots of political digs, Ali & Ali: The Deporation Hearings also builds beautifully across a single act of 90 minutes, hitting home with a tough conclusion about Canadian ignorance and intransigence.”
- Peter Birnie, The Vancouver Sun
