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Shesh Yak Extends at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Laith Nakli’s world-premiere production adds a week of performances.

New York City

February 17, 2015

Zarif Kabier and Laith Nakli in a scene from Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's Shesh Yak. — Zarif Kabier and Laith Nakli in a scene from Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s *Shesh Yak*.
(© Sandra Coudert)

Rattlestick Playwrights and LaiLou Productions have announced a one-week extension for the world premiere of Shesh Yak, written by Syrian-British writer and actor Laith Nakli and directed by Bruce McCarty. Performances will now run through February 28 (extended from its original February 22 closing date) at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

Set in the spring of 2011, five weeks into the civil uprising in Syria, Shesh Yak follows Jameel (Zarif Kabier), a 30-something Syrian-American writer waiting in his New York apartment for a houseguest (Nakli) — a Syrian ex-patriot and leader in the anti-Syrian government movement. However, unexpected tensions lead them into a re-examination of their lives and choices.

Lailou Productions is a film, television, and theater production company based in New York City. Nakli, and Iranian-American producer, Nilou Safinya, founded the company to tell often-experienced but not-so-often told stories of universal humanity.

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