NYTimes.com: IF Caryl Churchill, Franz Kafka and Ali G were to goof around one night and play their music too loud until the Department of Homeland Security came knocking on their door, they might emerge (eventually) the next morning holding something like the script to “Invasion!” In that play — Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s blistering dark comedy, which opens at the Flea Theater on Tuesday — one character’s harmless memories of his Lebanese uncle, Abulkasem, morph into a genre- and language-scrambling fantasia on fear, confusion and the Other. Along the way the evasive Abulkasem re-emerges as everyone from a world-renowned terrorist to a female avant-garde theater director to a “super pro pimp” at a singles bar.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, the Playwright Behind ‘Invasion!’
NYTimes.com: IF Caryl Churchill, Franz Kafka and Ali G were to goof around one night and play their music too loud until the Department of Homeland Security came knocking on their door, they might emerge (eventually) the next morning holding something like the script to “Invasion!” In that play — Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s blistering dark comedy, which opens at the Flea Theater on Tuesday — one character’s harmless memories of his Lebanese uncle, Abulkasem, morph into a genre- and language-scrambling fantasia on fear, confusion and the Other. Along the way the evasive Abulkasem re-emerges as everyone from a world-renowned terrorist to a female avant-garde theater director to a “super pro pimp” at a singles bar.
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