Extended Play advisory board member Milo Rau's production stems from a political campaign for migrant farm workers in Southern Italy, investigates its actual events, leaders, and participants, and extracts its course of resistance into a contemporary biblical fable for the silver screen.

A group of Lebanese artists with Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco as well as Al Madina Theatre and The Legal Agenda in Beirut present a theatrical reading of verbatim testimonies of the Beirut explosion of Aug. 4, 2020. Following the reading, the panel discussed processing that trauma and the role of art.

In Episode 4 of Kunafa and Shay, a HowlRound podcast series, hosts Nabra Nelson and Marina J. Bergenstock discuss verbatim plays in twenty-first century MENA theatre with artist and activist Jen Marlowe. You can listen to the episode, and others in the Kunafa and Shay series, on Spotify and read the transcript below.