Barriers takes place four months after 9/11 and deals with the Chinese/Pakistani Abbas family, and the loss of their oldest son Nabhil at the World Trade Center. The Abbas’s only daughter, Sunima, comes home to announce her pending engagement to a white man. However, Sunima’s news becomes lost in a mire of household problems and she gets trapped in the family loss they never dealt with.  As this multi-cultural family begins to fragment, we begin to piece together the past each one hides, and the future they all share.  Originally mounted in at HERE and then subsequently co-produced with the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco and Los Angeles in 2003, Barriers is returning the stage slightly reworked to look back on the ten-year anniversary of the World Trade Center Tragedy.

Written by Rehana Lew Mirza
Directed by Colette Robert
Produced by Ying Le
Production Stage Manager: John Nehlich
Set/Costume Designer: Katherine Akiko Day
Sound Designer: Colin Whitely
Lighting Designer: Marie Yokoyama
Assistant Stage Manager: Ben Schaffer
Graphic Design: Nilou Moochhala

Cast:

Pooja Kumar
Sunkrish Bala
Joe Petrilla*
Eileen Rivera*
Jon Norman Schneider*
Rajeev Varma

*These actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Assocation.

Equity Approved Showcase

Wednesday, September 7 – 7pm
Thursday, September 8 – 7pm
Friday, September 9 – 7pm
Saturday, September 10 – 7pm
Sunday, September 11 – 2pm
Sunday, September 11 – 7pm
Tuesday, September 13 – 7pm
Wednesday, September 14 – 7pm
Thursday, September 15 – 7pm
Friday, September 16 – 7pm
Saturday, September 17 – 7pm
Sunday, September 18 – 2pm

For tickets: visit here.org or call 212-352-3101 Box Office: open after 5pm on show days or 2 hours before any performance