Following the sell-out hit, The Humans, Stephen Karam returns to Hampstead Theatre with the European premiere of his award-winning comedy, Sons of the Prophet, from 2 December to 14 January. The full solid will function:
- Raphael Akuwudike, Holly Atkins, Juliet Cowan, Jack Holden, Raad Rawi, Irfan Shamji, Eric Sirakian, and Sue Wallace.
- Director Bijan Sheibani is joined by designer, Samal Blak; lighting designer, Jack Knowles; sound designer, Giles Thomas; casting director, Julia Horan and assistant director, Stepan Mysko von Schultze.
“Every family’s got their stuff, right? The Douaihys have a habit of dying tragically. We’re like the Kennedys without the sex appeal.”
Joseph Douaihy, a homosexual American-Lebanese Maronite Christian in rural Pennsylvania, has a reasonably difficult life. When his father dies as the results of a prank, life really spirals in the direction of the weird. With unexplained ache blocking his athletics profession, a determined new boss who desires to capitalize on his grief, a dependent uncle who thinks he’s his authorized guardian and a really wayward youthful brother, Joseph has quite a bit on his plate. So, he actually shouldn’t be spending time with the enticing journalist who’s searching for the within scoop on his father’s accident.
Described by the New York Times as ‘the absolutely wonderful new comedy-drama by Stephen Karam’ Sons of the Prophet was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play in 2012. It follows Stephen Karam’s The Humans which was a sell-out smash-hit at Hampstead Theatre in 2018.
Stephen Karam is the Tony Award-winning writer of The Humans; Sons of the Prophet and Speech & Debate. For his work he’s acquired two Drama Critics Circle Awards, an OBIE Award and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. After a 12 months on Broadway, The Humans ran at Hampstead Theatre and continues to be produced throughout the USA and internationally, having opened in over 10 nations.
Stephen mentioned:
“I’m very excited to be back at Hampstead Theatre. There’s no better feeling than being back at a place that has already been such a great, wonderful home. Sons of the Prophet is a comedy about human suffering and the laughter and ways that people make sense of the wounds they carry with them. The play is something that audiences everywhere can relate to.”