The Emigrants

The Emigrants is a two-man play that presents the travails and heartbreak of the immigration experience through the experiences of two unnamed men sharing a basement apartment in an unnamed country. Although both men have emigrated from the same country, they have very different ideas of what their future holds. One wants to forget his past in order to create a new future while the other lives in his past in order to create the unattainable future of his dreams. Furthermore, their backgrounds differ in that they are from opposing ends of the social spectrum and thus have completely different education, motives and goals. Through their conversation the audience is draw into the world of loneliness, alienation, homesickness and disassociation that marks the immigration experience.