Synopsis

Back of the Throat

Back of the Throat $13

Yussef El Guindi

Published by Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

Sparkling with intelligence and humor, this is the tale of an apparently friendly visit by two government officials, which soon devolves into a full blown, no-holds-barred probe

Khaled, an Arab-American writer and the focus of their inquiry, finds himself, to his astonishment, suddenly accused of possible ties to terrorists

As the interrogation proceeds, the officials reveal their evidence, but is it evidence? Or have innocent events been distorted through the lens of paranoid suspicion?

As the situation turns increasingly surreal, and the menace to Khaled increasingly real, the question of what it means to be an American takes on a very personal and charged significance

An enthralling and ultimately chilling black comedy

"[a] brilliant and sinewy new play" ~ The New Yorker

"Wickedly funny ... surely to be remembered as a valuable contribution to the post-9/11 canon of plays" ~ New City (Chicago)

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