“The Vagrant Trilogy,” a play at the Public Theatre, is about a Palestinian Wordsworth scholar. The show takes place in three acts, “Sliding Doors”-style, imagining different ways the man’s life could have unfolded.
In a sense, the playwright Mona Mansour has been working on “The Vagrant Trilogy” for fifteen years; in another sense, she’s been working up to it her whole life. It’s that kind of play. “You try not to think of it as this huge, epic thing, because it puts too much pressure on it,” she said the other day. The play was supposed to open soon, at the Public Theatre.
The other day, at the Public’s rehearsal space on Lafayette Street, Mansour sat behind a folding table, occasionally sliding a black mask aside to sip tea from a Baseball Hall of Fame mug. Two of the cast, Hadi Tabbal and Ramsey Faragallah, were doing a scene in which Adham, now a faculty member at a British university, asks a more established colleague for career advice. The play features six actors in nineteen roles.
“Let’s say it’s a bag, and nobody bring up that it otherwise wouldn’t be,” Sarah Blush, the associate director, said.
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