Everybody Hurts, Everybody Hates
✮✮✮ 1/2 Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Sarah Goodes We can all agree that everything is not quite coming up roses in the world today, with terrorists blowing up cities everywhere, and people waging war against one another, all in the name of race and religion. There is no denying that at the root of these catastrophes is hate. Hate that comes in a manner of guises and a range of justifications but ultimately it all boils down to the simple
Theory of Conflict
✮✮✮ Ayad Akhtar's The Invisible Hand New York Theatre Workshop | NYC directed by Ken Rus Schmoll Ventriloquising media-vilified terrorists could turn any author mealy-mouthed. Dave Eggers stumbled with his non-fiction book Zeitoun, which eulogised a New Orleans man whose wife has now spoken out over his violent stalking of her and her child. Here, Ayad Akhtar’s patchier follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced in 2012 moves the scene from a bourgeois dinner party to
