Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements
2. Dedication
3. List of Photographs
4. Foreword by director Mark-Wing Davey
5. Introduction by editors Hala Baki & Michael Malek Najjar
7. A Note on the Texts
8. The Plays
Part 1: The Hour of Feeling
Part 2: The Vagrant
Part 3: Urge for Going
9. Afterword by Mona Mansour
10. Critical Essay by Dr Diya Abdo
10. Notes and Bibliography

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A triptych of plays by a renowned Arab American writer focusing on Palestinian displacement, separation, and the state of “permanent impermanence” refugees the world over experience daily.

About the Author

Mona Mansour’s play The Vagrant Trilogy made its New York City debut in April 2022 at the Public Theater, directed by Mark Wing-Davey. It was originally presented at Mosaic Theater in June 2018. Other plays include: Unseen (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2022); We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War (Golden Thread, 2018); The Way West (Labyrinth, Village Theatre, Steppenwolf, Marin Theatre Company); In The Open (Waterwell). Mona was a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. Her commissions include Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla Playhouse, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “American Revolutions.” Awards include the 2012 Whiting Award, 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award, 2018 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and 2020 Helen Merrill Award. Mansour is a resident playwright at New Dramatists (Class of 2020).