#war-zones

#war-zones

People in war zones hang out. They smoke; they gossip. They make up funny dances. To forget this is to deny the real people in these dire situations their humanity and to risk seeing them only through the eyes of charity-helpless, desperate, and without pride. Them, the 2019 play by Samah Sabawi, opens promisingly with a down-to-earth scene: Three young men-two with rifles-stand at a makeshift check point and shoot the shit.