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There’s a tranquil moment of healing in act two, when a teary-eyed Marwa turns to their older brother Yousif and pleads, “I don’t want 17 years to pass.” That instant captures the heartbeat ofLayalina
Zebari wrote the first draft of this two-act play in November 2020—in the span of two months during peak lockdown—because they wanted to shatter the stereotypes that people often have about southwest Asian families. “It’s no longer about that because now it’s a story aboutfamily,” Zebari says. “It’s about them being torn apart and finding each other.
“Having a couple of years of hindsight has been really helpful because [Martin was] able to write the first act with some understanding of history and context,” Green says. “But because act two was happening as they were writing it, since that first reading in January of 2021 to now, they’ve been able to get a little more distant and understand how the two acts work together, and what character arcs began in act one and don’t actually finish until the very end of the play.
It’s obvious that Zebari is first and foremost an actor, as they’ve crafted a character-driven story infused with punchy dialogue that gently unveils the characters. “I just found it incredibly moving, and even though the characters are—in many ways—very different from me, I responded to it on an emotional and personal level,” Green says. Director Sivan Battat expressed similar sentiments, which was partly why they took on this project.
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