Adil Mansoor is a Pakistani-American theater queerdo. His mother is a hijabi Quranic scholar. Since she discovered Adil’s queerness online, their once-close bond now needs rescue. In Amm(i)gone – a portmanteau of “ammi” (“mother” in Urdu) and the Greek heroine Antigone – Mansoor invites us on a journey of heartbreak and repair between mother and son as they embark on an examination and translation of Sophocles’ Antigone into Urdu. Passionately mining Greek tragedy, Islam and their own memories, they seek to recover their love across faith.
