 Unpronounceable
Santa Fe Armory for the Arts
Saturday February 2, 9pm
(Tickets: call 505.724.4771)
(Tickets: General $18, Students & Seniors $12)
About Kumail and Unpronounceable
The July debut of Kumail Nanjiani: Unpronounceable played to a rapt, sold-out houses in Chicago, IL. Now it comes to New Mexico for the 2008 Revolutions International Theatre Festival. Be sure to be among the lucky few to see this moving, hilarious show.
For those who don’t know, Kumail is a hot young comic based in Chicago who just happens to have been raised as a devout Shiite Muslim in Pakistan. While these experiences inform and color his hilarious standup act (which has landed him spots on Fox News and at the Aspen Comedy Festival), Unpronounceable takes things a step further, spinning a hypnotic coming-of-age story, as alien in specific detail as it is emotionally universal - poignant, terrifying and wryly funny (and often all three at the same time).
Almost incidentally, Kumail provides the audience with an incisive, ringside view into the religious and cultural mindset of Islam. His struggles with maintaining the beliefs and rituals of his upbringing - intensified once he begins the process of assimilation at a small town Iowa university – give insight into a cultural divide that affects every aspect of modern life. Directed by Lakeshore Theater consiglieri Paul Provenza (creator of the notorious documentary The Aristocrats), Unpronounceable is “important,” yes, but above all this is humorous and humane entertainment.
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