Plays
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from our playwright in residence
Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen
Hey, click here for a humorous
play that is a parody of Gone
With the Wind.
For my Islamic Plays:
Full length Plays:
One God! a theatrical representation of Master Bilal.
Critically Aclaimed and Award winning, One God has been
translated into Spanish, Arabic and Malay and presented in special audience before the late King Fahd inSaudi Arabia.
Also filmed for the local PBS station in Arizona.
What Kind of Mother - a THOUGHT provoking examination of child exploitation in the African American and Muslim community.
Shipmates - a full length dramady about 3 Muslims' day on September 11, 2001
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Plays for Muslim Women
Endeavoring to Answer - a spiritual play using creative movement and rhyme to demonstrate the components of the hadith to change with hands, mouth or heart.
Like the Women of Ansar - a biting and amusing examination of the 'isms' in the Muslim world - classism, sexism, racism
Stepping in the Right Direction - a house bringer downer about Muslimah in 15th year hijrah, 15th century ce and 15th century Hijrah.
Carrying the Load - a three ac play about the life of Sister Clara Muhammad the namesake of the nationwide Islamic schools. Her story is one that has not been told but is as interesting and impactful to the contributions of indigenous muslims in America as any known historical figure.
Children Skits:
Saami - can the words of an elderly man be
heard- especially if the listeners are the children of new immigrants enjoying the
privleges of America and the 'old man' is
an ex-slave, new to Islam?
Bilali's Children - the old slave Bilali has died in Georgia on Sapelo. Now its up to his Muslim children to give him the proper burial. Will Massah make a fuss or will the other slaves be the real problem?
A Fable? - a comedy skit about a make believe community in a make believe place that has 'real' problems. (Audience decides the ending)
My Man Malcolm - a group of street kids learn about Malcolm the tenth El-Hajj Malcolm Shabazz.
Rasheedah - let down your hair! - a comedy about a young girl struggling to cover her hair like a good little Muslimah or give in to her friends at school who want her to let her hair down in more ways than one..
Where are the Children?- a comedy skit (?) that looks at the empty Masajid and schools.
When it's funny I'll laugh - an adolescent's skit about proper Islamic adab.
Awesome a young children's skit about the wonder and power of Allah.
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All Male Skits
Poetry for our People -
a series of plays with all male audience performing the skits with poetry.
Call to Humanity - a choreopoem about calling mankind to the understanding of the Oneness of Allah. Produced in Richmond, Virginia February 5, 2005
Nothing But What He Strives For.. a choreopoem about mankind putting Allah first in their lives. Produced March 3, 2007.
Explain in Detail a chorepoem about the development of Islam from the Spanish slave ships that came to colonize South America, English slavery in North America, the struggle of captured Africans, the early 'Islamic' movements of the 20th century to the present day honoring the legacy of Imam W.D. Mohammed. Produced March 5, 2009.
