We would like to draw your attention to further performance dates with Isabelle Redfern in "Disgraced" at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus:
- Monday, 30 May, 8 pm
- Tuesday, 14 June, 7:30 pm
- Wednesday, 15 June, 10:30 am
Here you can see some striking scenes
In a New York upper-class apartment, two couples meet: Amir, a Pakistani-American married to Emily, a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) who as an artist has discovered Islamic culture for herself, while he, as an apostate, sees himself as a critic of Islam. The second couple is made up of Isaac, a Jewish-American art curator, and Jory, an African-American lawyer. Jory works at the same Jewish law firm as Amir; both are top people in mergers and acquisitions and their annual salaries move somewhere in the six-figure range, where a change of firm can readily fetch $200,000 more. They are all the arrived, the well-to-do prosperous, whose ethnic and religious roots entail no social or existential hardships and conflicts. This social setting is the crux of Akhtar''s play, allowing him to treat existing conflicts around migration, religion, terrorism, the Patriot Act and everyday racism in an entertaining and discursive way: the play begins as a boulevard comedy and ends as a psychological drama of jealousy and identity.