ALAA: A Family Trilogy
a work-in-progress reading of Play II: Mini-RevolutionariesPlay 2 of a historical saga dramatizing the Egyptian Revolution through the life of youth activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
24/25 Hop PresentsWritten by Adam Ashraf Elsayigh
Generative Dramaturgy by Salma S. Zohdi
Directed by Shadi Ghaheri
In 2011, blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah gained prominence by fusing his activism and tech acumen, making him one of the Egyptian Revolution's leading youth voices. But Abd El-Fattah has spent much of the last decade in Cairo's prisons, unlawfully imprisoned by the state's resurgent military regime in an attempt to silence him… to destroy his spirit and mind.
The play juxtaposes physical storytelling and projections with Abd El-Fattah's testimonials and interviews conducted with Alaa's family matriarchs.
ALAA: A Family Trilogy was commissioned by Golden Thread Productions with support from the Gerbode Foundation.
Generously supported by the Howard Gilman 1944 Directorship at the Hopkins Center for the Arts Fund
Cairo-born and Dubai-raised, Adam Ashraf Elsayigh's childhood entwined a Muslim Egyptian home, American cable and British schooling in a migrant-majority city. This upbringing at the cross-section of cultures is at the core of the artist Adam is. Today, Adam is an U.S.-based playwright and theatermaker of stage and screenplays about modern people navigating themes of queerness, labor and class while living across and between cultures. Adam's writing (Drowning in Cairo, Memorial, ALAA: A Family Trilogy) has been developed across four continents, including at Sundance, NYTW and Golden Thread. Adam is a Georgetown Global Performance Lab Fellow. He holds a BA in Theater and Dramaturgy from NYU Abu Dhabi and an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College.
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