"But it doesn''t come from Islam. It comes from you. Islam has no monopoly on fundamentalism." Isabelle Redfern has been playing her role of "Jory" in the 2013 Pulitzer-Prize-winning debut play by US writer Ayad Akhtar for a year now at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, occasionally as a stand-in at the Residenztheater München too, and now in Vienna at the Burgtheater.
The premiere is on 26 November 2016
Is the Koran really one "long hate mail to humanity"? Just how Islamophobic have Western societies become since 11 September 2001? The rapidly escalating conversation lays bare how fragile the self-image can be of those who were born into one world but have pledged themselves to another. Ayad Akhtar''s debut play, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2013, negotiates complex themes such as religious identity and everyday racism, integration and self-loathing in a pointed and gripping way. It exposes the life-lies and prejudices of the liberal middle class and shows how quickly supposed political correctness reaches its limits.Cast: Fabian Krüger, Katharina Lorenz, Nicholas Ofczarek, Isabelle Redfern, Christoph Radakovits. Director: Tina Lanik