Noura
Off Broadway, Playwrights Horizons
Reviewed by Ken Kaissar
BOTTOM LINE: An enchanting and poetic new play about Iraqi refugees that is perfect for the holiday season.
What does it mean to abandon the land of your birth and accept citizenship in a new country? What does it mean to watch the irrevocable destruction of your homeland, and what does such upheaval do to your relationship with a culture and heritage that goes back 3,000 years? These complicated questions and more are raised in Heather Raffo’s poetically brilliant new play Noura...
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Theasy is again covering the 2018 Fringe Festival
The NY International Fringe Festival runs October 1 - 31, 2018.
FringeNYC runs October 12 -28.
We will be reviewing many of the shows in the festival.