The Vagrant Trilogy: Three Plays by Mona Mansour
The Hour of Feeling; The Vagrant; Urge for Going
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“The [Vagrant Trilogy] extends far beyond the timeline of devastating events, and instead shows us something greater: humanity.” - Broadway World
The Vagrant Trilogy is a set of three plays by award-winning Arab American playwright Mona Mansour which explores the Palestinian condition prior to, during, and after the infamous Six-Day War. It sketches the devastating effect this conflict had on members of the Palestinian diaspora scattered in Europe and in Lebanese refugee camps.
With productions in Washington DC, New York, and Abu Dhabi, this trilogy has moved audiences across both America and the Arabic-speaking world. The Hour of Feeling, The Vagrant, and Urge for Going offer a deep exploration of the Palestinian struggle for home and identity, a powerful glimpse into a reality that many face and few understand.
The volume includes a foreword by director Mark Wing-Davey; an introduction by Arab American theatre scholars Hala Baki and Michael Malek Najjar; the three plays in their final performance versions; an interview with playwright Mona Mansour; and a critical essay by literary scholar Diya Abdo. This collection of Mansour's outstanding plays is another important contribution to the Arab American theatrical canon and the larger body of American drama.
Mona Mansour
Mona Mansour is a Lebanese-American playwright and television writer based in Brooklyn. Her plays include Unseen (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Gift Theater); We Swim We Talk We Go to War (Golden Thread); The Way West (Labyrinth Theater, Steppenwolf). The full-length version of The Hour of Feeling was at Actors Theater of Louisville's Humana Fest; an Arabic Translation was presented at NYU Abu Dhabi in 2016. Urge for Going was presented at The Public Theater and Golden Thread. Mona Mansour was a member of The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group. With Tala Manassah she wrote Falling Down the Stairs, an EST/Sloan commission. Their play Dressing is part of Facing Our Truths, commissioned by the New Black Festival. Awards include: 2020 Kesselring, 2020 Helen Merrill Award, 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award. Residencies: MacDowell Colony, Space on Ryder Farm, Sundance Theater Institute, New Dramatists Class of 2020. Mona writes for NBC's New Amsterdam, and is working on a script for AMC International. In 2019, she formed the theater company Society with Scott Illingworth and Tim Nicolai.
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