National Tour Produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with Kelly Strayhorn Theater

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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Washington, DC | April 20, 2024 - May 12, 2024

Long Wharf Theatre

New Haven, CT | May 28 - June 23, 2024

More cities and dates TBD

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Created and Performed by Adil Mansoor

Co-Directed by Adil Mansoor and Lyam B. Gabel

Co-Media Designers: Joseph Amodei & Davine Byon

Sound Designer: Aaron Landgraf

Scenic & Lighting Designer: Xotchil Musser

Photos: Curtis Brown Photography 

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Amm(i)gone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, is an apology to and from a mother.

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Creator and performer Adil Mansoor explores queerness, the afterlife, and obligation using canonical texts, teachings from the Quran, and audio conversations between him and his mother. Since discovering his queerness, Mansoor’s mother has turned towards her faith in an attempt to save her son in the afterlife. In an effort towards healing, Mansoor has invited his mother to join him as dramaturg and co-conspirator. In reading, discussing, and translating various adaptations of the source play, together they mine Greek tragedy, Islamic traditions, and their own memories to create an original performance locating love across faith.

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Can prayer substantiate care? Can care manifest as artistic methodology and inquiry? Can Mansoor and his mother contend with Antigone’s fate?