Poster for Mosque Alert with production dates and times

Mosque Alert

Written by Jamil Khoury

Directed by Neil Blackadder

In producing Mosque Alert, Knox contributed to the development of a new play by Jamil Khoury, Artistic Director of Chicago theatre company Silk Road Rising. Khoury visited campus several times before and during rehearsals and production, and presented and led discussions of several videos made by his company to the entire campus community. Mosque Alert went on to be produced professionally at Silk Road Rising in Chicago, among other productions.

http://www.mosquealert.org

Mosque Alert tells the story of two suburban American families living in Naperville, Illinois – one nominally Christian, the other observantly Muslim – who find their lives intertwined and interrupted by a proposal to build a new mosque in their community. The proposed Islamic Center of DuPage Country is a large, architecturally ambitious complex slated to be built on the site of a much beloved though now defunct church in Naperville’s downtown. Part docudrama, part agitprop theatre, part family ruckus, Mosque Alert explores who we are as 21st Century Americans amidst debates about community, identity, religious pluralism, multiculturalism, Islamophobia, national security, and civil rights.

February 25 – 28, 2015

7:30 pm

Harbach Theatre

two men sitting across from one another, with a desk between them, talking

two people sitting and talking, woman has her hands up and gesturing to the man

four people sitting and talking at cafe tables

two couples sitting and talking, the two women wear hijabs

four women sitting and talking, two center women wearing hijabs

family of four at their dining table, three of them sitting, one standing

two men standing and talking over a desk

man standing center talking on the phone with a man sitting at a table stage left

man standing at podium, projected image of an architectural blueprint on the backdrop behind him

full stage showing three areas, two people in an office space stage right, four people in a living room center, two people in a dining room stage left

two men sitting on a couch talking, a woman sits on a chair nearby

four people holding picket signs

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