Silk Road Rising [...] is causing quite a stir with its newest production, Invasion!... We caught up with Founding Artistic Director Jamil Khoury to chat about the theater community’s reaction to this highly charged, thought-provoking play.
An 80-minute full-frontal assault on the racial profiling of Muslim and Arab men, Invasion! is a torrent of humor, irony, and self-reflection. And it has certainly sparked controversy.
With Invasion!, the Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri bombards his audience with a barrage of poetry, dialogue, and shape-shifting characters.
For those not in the know, Invasion! is a play that challenges and deconstructs the racial profiling of Muslim and Arab men in the West. It is a play that humorously disentangles terror scares in the Middle East from how we perceive the Muslims living next door.
