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WRITTEN BY CAMYAR CHAI, GUILLERMO VERDECCHIA & MARCUS YOUSSEF
Worried about H1N1? Lose your shirt in the economic meltdown? No-one sublet your apartment for the Olympics? Boyfriend tell you he's polyamorous?
Relax: Ali and Ali are back -- and they’re way worse off than you. Brand New Show!
In 2005 Neworld Theatre brought you Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil. The Seattle Post said it “must be the funniest exposition of American foreign policy ever devised. But it’s not just funny. It’s also troubling and poignant.” The Vancouver Province called it “the best Canadian political play of the 21st century, and the funniest." (The Toronto Star guy also said they were “like a bunch of shouting amateurs” … he’s undergoing extensive re-education).
Now Ali and Ali creators Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef turn their idiosyncratic brand of post-identity satire to (yet another) whole new world. While the Devil President Bush has been replaced by a Nobel Prize Winner whose middle name is Hussein, Ali and Ali have been in
Vancouver for five years, eking out a refugee claimants’ living in the back of a Falafel shop on the East Side, writing their new show. It’s the optimistic Obama tribute, Ali and Ali 7: Hey Brother, Can You Spare Some Hope and Change – featuring homegrown sock puppets, interactive veils, and a chorus of
African-American revolutionaries …
But who is this person constantly interrupting the show, and why does she have so many troubling questions? How many times did the Alis rent A Few Good Men? What were they doing in Axerbaijan? What’s the “Al-Jihadi Mosque”, who’s immigration consultant Coco Pinoy, and is “Agraba” really on the Uzbeki/Lebanese border?
Could the Alis be in trouble with the authorities? Might they be prosecuted under little known 9-11 era legislation called PEIU, the Permission to Expel Immigrant Undesirables Act? Yes, the deportation of undesirables, ladies and gentlemen LIVE, ON-STAGE. The fictional PIEU is based on Canada’s very real
Security Certificates, under which five muslim men have been held in Canada in various states of detention -- often solitary confinement -- for NINE YEARS, with NO CHARGES and NO ACCESS TO THE EVIDENCE AGAINST THEM. Ali and Ali 7 co-creator Youssef says, “Midway through watching the hearings of security certificate detainee Mahmoud Jaballah, I turned to Guillermo and said, ‘This
process is so absurd, the only people who can deal with it are Ali and Ali.’”
Co-starring Raugi Yu as Yogi Roo, the Chinese-Canadian utility actor, and Laara Sadiq as the “rabid fan.”
Afros, as always, by Moammar Ghadafii
Come early, get a FREE TASER™.
About Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil:
“The smartest Canadian political play of the 21st century, and the funniest.” - Vancouver Province
“Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil must be the funniest exposition of American foreign policy ever devised. But it isn’t just funny. It is also troubling and poignant.” - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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