‘A Distinct Society,” based on real-life events, gets world premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.
It sounds like the setting of a parable, but it’s a real place.
A Canadian-born playwright and director of Egyptian descent now based in New York, Fahmy says he had been aware of the library growing up in southeastern Quebec. One of the characters in the play lives in the same city that Fahmy is from, Sherbrooke, about 30 minutes from the library. “Here’s this really interesting setting — this room where I’ve set the play that has this line of tape down the middle of the floor, one side being Canada and the other of the U.S.,” Fahmy says. “The article both talked about how beautiful a story it is, but also how, just as the article was written, it was starting to turn. The Department of Homeland Security was trying to close down this loophole, which is essentially what it was, and create all these restrictions.
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