I Call My Brothers - Melbourne Theatre Co

Overview

When a bomb goes off in the centre of the city, the shockwaves are followed by ripples of fear and paranoia. For people like Amor, a young man of Arabic descent running errands near the bomb site, accusatory stares and murmurs of suspicion follow him wherever he goes.

Written by acclaimed Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri, I Call My Brothers makes its Australian debut at the Southbank Theatre; directed by MTC Women Director’s Program alumni Nadja Kositch. Originally set in Stockholm, where it was written in response to suicide attacks that shook the city in 2010, the play nonetheless confronts universal issues of prejudice and racial profiling — and does so with both gravity and unexpected humour.

Following its two week season in Southbank, the MTC production will tour schools in regional Victoria, where it is being studied as a VCE drama text.