APEIROGON: Rami and Bassam (Jan 27 - Feb 21, 2027) production

Apeirogon: Rami and Bassam

Based on the 2020 National Book Award winning non-fiction novel 

from the novel, Apeirogon, by Colum McCann

Adapted by Avner Ben-Amos

with Dramaturgy and Original Direction by Sinai Peter

January 27 – February 21, 2027

at UNMC – 1810 16th Street, NW DC

Produced by Voices Festival Productions

Ari Roth, Founding Artistic Producing Partner  
A. Lorraine Robinson, Artistic Producing  Partner
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Apeirogon: Rami and Bassam

A theatrically distilled adaptation of the acclaimed National Book Award winning novel "Apeirogon" by Colum McCann that tells the fractured story of two fathers, one Israeli and one Palestinian, brought together by the loss of their daughters. Despite being raised to hate one another, they find common ground in their grief and form an unlikely friendship. The novel, inspired by the real-life stories of Rami Elhanan, an Israeli, whose daughter, Smadar, was killed by suicide bombers, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, whose daughter, Abir, was killed by a rubber bullet shot by the IDF. Despite their backgrounds and the hatred ingrained in their societies, the two fathers accidentally connect and, through their shared grief and trauma, recognize the humanity in each other's stories and history to begin a difficult journey of healing and reconciliation. 

A week of workshop readings in English was presented with last winter in Washington, following the world premiere staging in Hebrew and Arabic at the Jaffa Theatre in where the work continues to play in repertory to sold out houses.

VFP’s American Premiere production offers updated material to account for so many newly unfolding realities.