July 10 – August 2
Run Time: 90 minutes
Adult language and situations
“Because love will always carve you up eventually.”
Jealous love sears the skin of this darkly comic play like lava seeping down a hillside, inevitable and all-consuming. A chance meeting of a pair of young Arab-Americans framed by their refugee experience and an impossibly rich patroness sets in motion a chain of events that leads to a violent crime. As tensions mount and relationships are shattered, a therapist (who’s grappling with her own marital issues) is hired by the defense to determine culpability. Award-winning playwright and 2025 recipient of the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Citation of Excellence Yussef El Guindi explores immigrant lives in plays praised for “insightful, open-hearted…humor, warmth and all-around compassion” (Seattle Times).
Support for this production provided in part by the Laurents Hatcher Foundation
SPONSORED BY C.M. & STEPHANIE PARTRIDGE
Getting to the Play
Studio 112
92 West Campus Drive
Shepherdstown, WV
92 West Campus Drive
92 West Campus Drive, Shepherdstown, WV, USA
2026 – Interview with Playwright Yussef El Guindi
Meet Yussef El Guindi Born in Egypt, raised in London and now based in Seattle, Yussef El Guindi’s work frequently examines the collision of ethnicities, cultures and politics that face Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans. His most recent productions: Hotter Than Egypt at Marin Theatre Company, ACT in Seattle, and at the Denver Center for … Continued