Ignorance/Jahiliyyah

by Steve Waters

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An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.

1949. Small town Colorado. A group of regular American students struggle to accept a foreigner in their midst; their unthinking behaviour will have terrible consequences that are to change world history. In London, sixty years later, a university professor’s work analysing those consequences takes on a frightening personal dimension when Layla Ahmad walks into his office...

Steve Waters' play Ignorance/Jahiliyyah was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2012.

  • ISBN13 9781848422957
  • Publish Date 15 November 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Nick Hern Books
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 80
  • Language English