Laylalina
The Goodman Theatre
A surprising new play about how families fall apart—and find each other again—amidst turbulent global and social change.
In 2003, newly-wed Layal and her family prepare to immigrate from Baghdad, Iraq, to a Chicago suburb. Seventeen years later, Layal’s life looks unimaginably different from what she had envisioned two decades prior, as she and her siblings explore queerness, face their grief, and discover what it takes to make home in a new place. Don’t miss this moving, powerful new play’s world premiere on the Owen Stage—fresh from Goodman’s New Stages and Future Labs programs.
Playwright: Martin Yousif Zebari
Director: Sivan Battat
Scenic Designer: casaboyce
Costume Designer: Dina El-Aziz
Lighting Designer: Jason Lynch
Sound Designers: Eric Backus and Ronnie Malley
Dramaturgs: Jonathan L. Green and Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
Vocal Coach: Eva Breneman
Khigga Instructor: Phaedra Darwish
Assistant Director/Intimacy Facilitator: Gloria Imseih Petrelli
Dialect Coach: Louis Sallan
Production Stage Manager: Jaci Entwisle
Photography by Liz Lauren
