Playwright Mona Mansour on Trauma, Mental Health and Endless Wars
metroweekly.comThe Vagrant Trilogy, a piece that would later move to New York’s Public Theater and earn the highly coveted New York Times Critic’s Pick.
She’s now back at Mosaic for the third professional production of Unseen, a play she describes as “a bit of a thriller.”“It starts with a question, which is ‘How did this American photographer, Mia, end up at the site of a massacre?'” she says. “With her Turkish ex-girlfriend, Derya, the pair piece it together.
In her quest to find out and through flashbacks to different assignments in her past, it keeps looping back to the present time.
It moves toward what is hopefully an emotionally satisfying ending. Everything isn’t tied up, but it questions the limits of empathy and what happens when people lose it.”Unseen first premiered at Chicago’s Gift Theater in 2017 and last year, played the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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