In Development

The Shalimar is thrilled to be in development for our 2 next full-length collaborative pieces:

The Immigration Play (working title).

In the fall of 2007 The Shalimar gathered a group of highly collaborative actors with Iranian-American playwright Nastaran Ahmadi to conduct interviews, gather research, watch movies, write songs, and generate work that will become a theater piece dealing with questions about the borders we are forced to live with.

With immigration as a jumping off point, we are exploring globalization, and ultimately asking the question, what makes a certain country home? So far our research includes interviews with everyone from reforming felons to prominent immigrant artists working in NY, phone calls to 1-800-IMMIGRATION, blogs by one man who is very angry with Chiquita Banana, and our own stories. Every artist involved in this project has faced immigration issues at some point. Part documentary theater, part absurd fantasy, and part to be discovered, the Immigration Play will twist and bend the theatrical form (as we always endeavor to do) while telling a story that makes the political deeply personal, not only for the artists involved, but for anyone struggling with the country of their birth.

The Immigration Play will be written by Nastaran Ahmadi, directed by Shoshona Currier, and created by the company.

To be presented in the fall of 2008, venue TBA.

and in January 2009......

The Surveillance Play (working title).

Who's watching you?