Images from Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s National Touring Production at Long Wharf Theatre, Photography by Curtis Brown Photography

Amm(i)gone
Created and Performed by Adil Mansoor
Co-directed by Lyam B. Gabel and Adil Mansoor

A National Tour of Amm(i)gone will be produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC in association with Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC | April 20, 2024 - May 12, 2024
Long Wharf Theatre
New Haven, CT | May 28 - June 23, 2024
More cities and dates TBD

Amm(i)gone National Touring Production Team
Co-Media Designer: Joseph Amodei
Co-Media Designer: Davine Byon
Sound Designer: Aaron Landgraf
Set and Lighting Designer: Xotchil Musser

“Alif Lam Meem”(original music in Amm(i)gone)
Co-composed by Shahzad Ismaily and Aya Abdelaziz
Vocals by Aya Abdelaziz
Arranged by Aaron Langraf

Project Description

Amm(i)gone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, is an apology to and from a mother.

Creator and performer Adil Mansoor explores queerness, the afterlife, and obligation using canonical texts, teachings from the Quran, and audio conversations between him and his mother. Since discovering his queerness, Mansoor’s mother has turned towards her faith in an attempt to save her son in the afterlife. In an effort towards healing, Mansoor has invited his mother to join him as dramaturg and co-conspirator. In reading, discussing, and translating various adaptations of the source play, together they mine Greek tragedy, Islamic traditions, and their own memories to create an original performance locating love across faith.

Can prayer substantiate care? Can care manifest as artistic methodology and inquiry? Can Mansoor and his mother contend with Antigone’s fate?

Collaborators

Ammi)gone was developed with:
Creative Consultant: Sharlene Bamboat
Video Consultant: Bleue Liverpool
Photo Embroidery: Rebecca Harrison
Slide Film Consultant: Caldwell Linker
Translation Consultant: Ned Moore
Costume Consultant: Rachel Vallozzi
Assistant Director: Pria Dahiya
Production Stage Manager: Leslie Huynh
In-process Stage Managers: Ferdinand Moscat and Pixie Colbert
Virtual In-process Board Operator: Erin Roussel
Premiere Board Operator: Britt Pierce
Kelly Strayhorn Theater Programming Director: Ben Pryor
The Theater Offensive Director of Programs: Tonasia Jones

Amm(i)gone is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater in partnership with The Theater Offensive and NPN/VAN. “Amm(i)gone” was developed as a Hatch Arts Collective project.

Amm(i)gone is additionally supported by the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier; the Point Foundation’s Andrew A. Isen Internship; The Heinz Endowments; Opportunity Fund; PNC Charitable Trust; A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation; Arts, Equity, Reimagined Fund; Workhorse Collaborative; and Dreams of Hope. Amm(i)gone was developed as a Hatch Arts Collective project.