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Camyar Chai

CAMYAR CHAI  

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Camyar Chai has worked in theater and film for more than twenty years, and is the founder of Vancouvers acclaimed NeWorld Theatre. He has worked as a freelance actor, director, and writer as well as an arts educator. In addition to writing plays, Chai has also written librettos for opera. An award-winning theater maker, he received his Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of British Columbia.

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 Adventures of Ali and Ali in the Axes of Evil, The         Ali & Ali (The Deportation Hearings)         I Am Your Spy, A Day In The Life Of Mordechai Vanunu         Quest         Rummi And Attar         Trail Of Mystic Poets

Adventures of Ali and Ali in the Axes of Evil, The

Adventures of Ali and Ali in the Axes of Evil, The
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 Youssef, Verdecchia and Chai do Shakespeare, Shaw and Swift one better with an endless string of buffooneries and absurdities derived from an inversion of the cliches 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.

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written by Camyar Chai, Marcus Youssef And Guillermo Verdecchia

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Neworld Theatre and Cahoots Theatre, Toronto    2004

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Talonbooks; 1 edition (March 15, 2005)   978-0889225169

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political satire

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Ali & Ali (The Deportation Hearings)

Ali & Ali (The Deportation Hearings)
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written by Camyar Chai, Marcus Youssef And Guillermo Verdecchia

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Talonbooks (October 15, 2013)   978-0889227828

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I Am Your Spy, A Day In The Life Of Mordechai Vanunu

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Quest

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Rummi And Attar

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Trail Of Mystic Poets

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