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Noel Greig’s Trashed was inspired by a Muslim girl’s experience - she had visited an uncle in New York in August 2001 and he died in the Twin Towers. The play is set in the shadow of terrorism and addresses a clash of culture, class, religion
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Two women meet in a litter-strewn park in London. Ruhela is a teenage British Muslim; Louisa is white trash from Mississippi. When the planes tore into the Twin Towers their lives collided. This confrontation could be the last chance for reconciliation with the past and with each other. They replay that Summer of 2001 in New York. Ruhelas brother, Abs has brought shame on his family. Louisas own rejection of her son, Mel, still haunts her. Four people struggle with the opposing forces of revenge and forgiveness, duty and individual freedom in this acclaimed tense and edgy contemporary drama. Noël's latest play for Theatre Centre was a brilliantly crafted, compelling contemporary drama. Global politics shone through individual lives people from very different backgrounds learned, painfully, what divided them and what, surprisingly, they had in common. Inspired by the lives and stories of Theatre Centre's Young Apprentice Writers, Trashed was set in...
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