Barriers
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 7, 2011
Closed Sep 18, 2011
Opened Sep 7, 2011
Closed Sep 18, 2011
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Barriers takes place four months after 9/11 and deals with the Chinese/Pakistani Abbas family, and the loss of their oldest son Nabhil at the World Trade Center. The Abbas's only daughter, Sunima, comes home to announce her pending engagement to a white man. However, Sunima's news becomes lost in a mire of household problems and she gets trapped in the family loss they never dealt with. As this multi-cultural family begins to fragment, we begin to piece together the past each one hides, and the future they all share. Originally mounted in at HERE and then subsequently co-produced with the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco and Los Angeles in 2003, Barriers is returning the stage slightly reworked to look back on the ten-year anniversary of the World Trade Center Tragedy.
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Rehana Lew Mirza's Barriers, now being revived at HERE, is an undeniably heartfelt, indisputably well-meaning, but often clunky 2002 drama about prejudices that fomented with ugly repercussions in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist-attack.
Packing views of intolerance in from all quarters, Mirza introduces Pakistani dad Khalil (Rajeev Varma), Chinese mom Naima (Eileen Rivera), and their slacker son Shehriar (Jon Norman Schneider), assimilating daughter Sunima (Pooja Kumar), as well as dead son Nabhil (Sunkrish Bala), a Twin Towers victim who is haunting his family on a daily basis, with memories of his relaxed goodness.
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