Do You Mind If I Sit Here

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A powerful new play by the author of Jabber and The In-Between, with a text exploring social issues, interclass dialogue, and the possibility of communal improvement

Award-winning playwright Marcus Youssef takes his readers to the future with his riveting new play Do You Mind If I Sit Here Thirty years from now, three social planners visit Vancouvers Russian Hall, long abandoned due to earthquakes and flooding, with a seemingly straightforward task: repurpose the hall for common use. But the trio soon discover the project wont be as easy as theyd thought. An eccentric squatter has made the damaged hall his home, and he not only possesses a trove of Soviet industrial films on 16-mm stock but also refuses to leave. Do You Mind If I Sit Here is a witty theatrical allegory about the possibilities of radical transformation, in which Youssef dares us to imagine a future borne from our most important beliefs, fears, and hope.

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Marcus Youssef is based on unceded Coast Salish Territory, a.k.a. Vancouver, Canada. His fifteen or so plays have been produced in multiple languages in scores of theatres in twenty countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, from Seattle to New York to Reykjavik, London, Venice, Hong Kong, Vienna, Athens, Frankfurt, and Berlin.Talon has published hisAdrift,Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil,Ali and Ali,Jabber,King Arthurs Night and Peter Panties,Winners and Losers, and the forthcoming The In-Between.