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The Mother of All Enemies

By Paul Zaloom (Creator of Mighty Nice)
2007-08 New Directions Series
Ages 18 and up ONLY, explicit adult content

Called “one of the most original and talented political satirists working in theater” by The New York Times, Paul Zaloom’s most recent spoof is sure to make you laugh…and cringe a little too. Zaloom gives new meaning to the term “shadow government” with this politicized update of the traditional Middle Eastern “Karagoz” shadow play. In Zaloom’s frenetically comic epic, Karagoz is a queer-secular humanist-Quaker-Buddhist-agnostic Arab immigrant artist, who somehow outfoxes a horde of pursuing adversaries made up of Homeland Security, Al Qaeda, the Statue of Liberty, the Christian Ex-Gay Movement, Minutemen vigilantes, and Israeli and Syrian agents.

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In the News!
• Creative Loafing (April 9, 2008) - "Speakeasy with Paul Zaloom. Political puppet show at Center for Puppetry Arts." By Curt Holman. URL



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