Mosque Alert In Live Theatre Analysis

Mosque Alert in Live Theater

The play is about three fictional families, two of whom are Muslims and one of whom is Christian, living in Naperville, Illinois. Their lives are interrupted by a proposed Islamic Center on the site of a beloved local landmark. Khoury, the playwright, tries to present his thoughts in Mosque Alert by exploring the arguments among these families and the intersections of their culture with humor, family drama, and refreshingly blunt honesty. Khoury's experiences living in the Middle East, as well as his eleven years as a cross-cultural trainer, make him focus on Middle Eastern themes and questions of Diaspora. He as a playwright tries to explore resistance to the building of mosques in communities across the United

In Mosque Alert, the theater was Fourth Wall, which is a convention of realist drama in which the audience watches the action as if staged in a room from which the fourth wall has been removed. The actors from the previous scene changed the furniture quickly after the scene finished in a manner commensurate with the new scene and with the actors of the new scene; the audience sits on the three sides around the stages. The actors enter from the aisles passing the audience by. Also, the actors change their cloths according to the scenes. For example, Imam Mustafa's wife, when she is at home, does not wear her hair covering (Al-hujab). When she is in public place like the meeting hall at the city, or she visits another family, she wears a full head covering which is a symbol of her religion. Another factor in the theater is the light. Stage lighting is the craft of lighting as it applies to performance of the actors. For example, the light was focus on Jennifer, Ted's daughter, when she argues her uncle to remove the website from his Facebook. The director uses the light to direct the audience's attention to an area of the stage. Moreover, the sound is very clear. The actors use their voice layers according to the