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MARCUS YOUSSEF
(1969 - )Nationality: Canadian
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Writer and performer Marcus Youssef is the associate artistic producer at Vancouver's NeWorld Theatre, though he is currently teaching in the Theater department at Concordia University in Montreal. A graduate of both the National Theatre School (Acting, 1992) and the University of British Columbia (M.F.A., 2002), Youssef is a regular contributor of drama, commentary, and documentary to numerous programs on the CBC network. He also writes regularly for publications such as Vancouver Magazine, Georgia Straight, Ricepaper, and This Magazine. For many years, Youssef has also dedicated himself to numerous community-based advocacy programs that aim at using writing and/or Theater as a tool for procuring political and social change. He co-founded CRANK Magazine with Matt Hern and Rich Lawley as well as the Reclaiming Projecta nationally recognized, immigrant-centered oral history programwith Mercedes Baines.
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Adrift Adventures of Ali and Ali in the Axes of Evil, The Ali & Ali (the Deportation Hearings) Line in the Sand , A Otherwise Occupied Peter Panties True Lies Winners and LosersAdrift
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A group of urban Egyptian twenty somethings meet each night on a houseboat to smoke weed and talk
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Top of PageAdventures 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 Beauderrieredada, 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)
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political satire
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Top of PageAli & Ali (the Deportation Hearings)
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written by Camyar Chai, Marcus Youssef And Guillermo Verdecchia
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Top of PageLine in the Sand , A
A troubled Canadian soldier and a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer meet during Operation Desert Shield. their growing friendship is severed by the torture and murder of the 16-year-old Palestinian inside the Canadian base; an act to which his friend the soldier was at least a witness
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written by Guillermo Verdecchia And Marcus Youssef
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Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1998
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Top of PageOtherwise Occupied
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Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver
2001
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Top of PagePeter Panties
Peter is a nerd. Wendy a manic depressive. The Lost Boys are randy. Mr Darling is more like David Bowie playing Macbeth
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Written by Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef. Music by Veda Hille. Based on characters created by J M Barrie
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Unknown Canadian recording (reviewed in Toronto Star 25 Feb 2013)
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Adult Pantomime
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Top of PageTrue Lies
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Written by Marcus Youssef And Guillermo Verdecchia
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Top of PageWinners and Losers
theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus and James sit at a table and play a game they made up called Winners and Losers. In it, they name people, places or things Pamela Anderson, microwave ovens, their fathers, Goldman Sachs and debate whether or not they are winners or losers. As Marcus and James seek to defeat each other, the debate becomes more and more personal as they dissect each other's familial and class histories. Winners and Losers is a conversation that tests capitalism's impact on our closest personal relationships, and our most intimate experiences of self.
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Written and performed by Marcus Youssef and James Long
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Neworld Theatre (Vancouver)
2012
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85 min piece
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