ABSTRACT
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is also a celebrated playwright, whose six plays have been performed by over hundred international companies on stages across Europe and in North America. His plays assault deep prejudices about identity, race, and language. Khemiri’s most recent play premiered at Dramaten in Stockholm in October 2014 and has been performed in Germany, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and the US. Khemiri’s writing has been translated into over twenty-five languages. One of the ways of resisting binary is to show that there is no easy version, that memory is always in some way tainted, but also that two versions can ultimately be true simultaneously. Another way to depart from a binary is to use confusion. To force the audience to not be absolutely sure that this table is a table. Stockholm is extremely segregated and there are very few places where people from different areas and different generations meet.
