...Lew Mirza’s play, now in its local premiere with First Floor Theater under Arti Ishak’s clever direction, provides a lens not usually implemented in tales of professional and personal shenanigans in the academic and publishing world.| ✍️ kerryreid
Through 6/10: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM; also Mon 5/22 and 6/5 8 PM , Wed 5/31 8 PM and Sat 6/10 3 PM; Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee, 773-697-3830,That lens is the way in which Muslims are stereotyped and demonized in popular culture. And that giveshigher stakes and deeper resonances than I’ve usually encountered in these scenarios. Layla is a professor at Wayne State University.
Well, as the title implies, that initial acrimony gives way to passionate physical and intellectual fireworks. “It’s not my job to make Muslims human,” Imran declares. “Wehuman,” Layla retorts. Lew Mirza’s script is loaded with direct-to-the-gut revelations but also subtle moments that tease out the nuances in how Layla and Imran have become the people they are in a place and time that’s all too quick to reduce them to convenient tropes about burqas and bombs.
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