STEVE WATERS’ new play IGNORANCE / JAHILIYYA
December 14, 2012
Premieres at Hampstead Theatre from 15 November – 15 December, directed by Nathan Curry
‘I am reading things, everything I read, I read and read, I read so many books… I awake with the words in my mouth and they are not simply words they are calls…to action.’
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…
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