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Home > Plays > Canadian > The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil: A Divertimiento for Warlords
The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil: A Divertimiento for Warlords
The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil: A Divertimiento for Warlords
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Author: Marcus Youssef , Guillermo Verdecchia and Camyar Chai Publisher: Talonbooks Format: Softcover # of Pages: 126 Pub. Date: 2005 ISBN-10: 0889225168 ISBN-13: 9780889225169
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About the Play:
The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil is a play by Marcus Youssef with Guillermo Verdecchia and Camyar Chai. In this elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration, the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the "war on terror" are exposed as the propaganda vehicles for the neo-colonialism of the West that they are.
"Ali Hakim" and "Ali Ababwa," refugees from the imaginary country "Agraba," attempt to seduce their audience into providing them with food, refuge, security, freedom and the material benefits of Western consumer society, failing miserably at every step. A hard-hitting presentation of a play-within-a-play assaults the audience as Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia and Camyar Chai do Shakespeare, Shaw and Swift one better with an endless string of buffooneries and absurdities derived from an inversion of the clichés defining the geo-politics of the Middle East at the beginning of the 21st century.
Informed by the research of Paul Krugman and Noam Chomsky, sent up by the post-modern cultural relativism of "Jean Paul Jacques Beauderrièredada," this political satire is not for the faint of heart.
Cast: 4 men.
What people say:
"The Adventures of Ali & Ali… is solid and polished… shockingly poignant, seriously funny, humbly powerful, intelligently goofy…." — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
About the Playwright:
Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama, fiction, and film; a director, dramaturge, actor, and translator whose work has been seen and heard on stages, screens, and radios across the country and around the globe. He is a recipient of the Governor General's Award for Drama, a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, a recipient of Dora and Jessie Awards, and sundry film festival awards for his film Crucero/Crossroads, based on his play Fronteras Americanas and made with Ramiro Puerta. |
Guillermo Verdecchia & Marcus Youssef
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