The play is based on the author's true family history and is set amongst the turbulent backdrop of 1950's Iraq to the present day. In the slums of Baghdad, a Jewish mother, Um-Kamal, finds her two sons arrested by the Secret Police. Inexplicably, one is imprisoned while the other gets set free.
Um-Kamal, a reluctant Communist, risks all to save her teenage son, and decades on, conflicting family narratives emerge in Um-Kamal's search for the truth - for what really happened the night of the arrest.
Dina Ibrahim is a North London writer of plays and children's stories - by day she writes and teaches children drama, and by night she hones the craft of Stand-Up comedy!
PLEASE NOTE: PLAYER PLAYWRIGHTS IS ON THE MOVE!
Our Monday night readings at events for the rest of this season are now at:
The Gallery
190 Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6 3AY
(Close to West Hampstead tube (Jubilee, London Overground)