Category: Past Events Published Date
Date: 20 Mar 2008
Title: HEARTS & MINDS - A performance followed by discussion
Speakers: Khayaal Theatre Company
Event Details:
With the Name of God, All-Merciful, Most Merciful
The City Circle, in association with Khayaal Theatre Company and St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, invites you to "HEARTS & MINDS," a 50-minute theatre-in-education play by Khayaal Theatre Company that explores conflicting discourses, loyalties and identities and some of what it means to be young, British and Muslim today.
The performance will be followed by discussion with the cast and writers.
Free entrance - all welcome, but places are limited.
To reserve a place or for event enquiries, please contact us on 07980 834340 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SYNOPSIS
This is a story of a teenage boy ? Asif. Pakistani by memory, urban British by culture and Muslim by sentiment, Asif appears to be in his groove. Cutting his entrepreneurial teeth by selling pirated wares and trumpeting his adolescence with a blend of gab and feigned indifference, Asif is doing it his way. If his heart and mind belonged to anyone, if he had to pledge allegiance to anything, it would be to Queen Elizabeth ? as long as she was stuck on the back of a bank note. But he is about to get all shook up. A school project challenges him to feel. A zealous classmate wants him to get real. His doormat dad won?t stand up and his favourite rap group have just been banged up. And that is just for starters. As the pressures of life mount, Asif has to make some difficult choices that will alter his view of himself and the world. Whether he finds a dream worth living or dying for all depends on the state of his heart and mind ? Oh, and the substance of water!
Hearts and Minds is a theatre-in-education production for high schools and colleges exploring some of what it means to be young, British and Muslim today. Based on extensive consultations and conversations with young Muslims and inspired by actual events and reference points, the play aims to encapsulate some of the dilemmas and discourses occupying the hearts and minds of young Muslims while also proposing creative avenues for reconciliation and resolution.