In its GoodmanTheatre world premiere, Martin Yousif Zebari's Layalina offers a lovely portrait of an Assyrian Iraqi family in war and peace. | ✍️ kerryreid
“The shit we deal with in Baghdad, it doesn’t exist in America,” declares Sahir early in, now in a world premiere at the Goodman under Sivan Battat’s direction. The newly minted Assyrian bridegroom is both right and wrong. The devastation of “shock and awe” bombing by American forces about to be unleashed in March 2003 on Sahir’s homeland isn’t something Americans habitually experience.
Zebari’s play can perhaps feel like two different stories woven together, but I’d argue that’s the point: seemingly mundane family disagreements exist amid the turmoil of war and occupation, while the legacy of that history lingers in the background for families who have endured it, even as they’re just making dinner or smoking pot. Moreover, as Marwa’s increasing activism with Black Lives Matter protests shows, there are communities in the U.S.
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