In Bridget Dutta Portman’s play, The Mourner, Reema comes to Glade Family Funeral Home and Cemetery with an unusual request: she wants to bury the body of her cousin, the perpetrator of a gruesome terrorist attack that left dozens injured and several dead.
Eleanor, the funeral home owner, refuses, and the two women are forced into a struggle over the fate of the body in this contemporary play loosely based on the myth of Antigone.
The play was directed by Paul Stout, with dramaturgy by Jayne Wenger. I played the role of ‘Sana’ alongside a cast that included Amitis Rossoukh, Mary Lou Torre, James Gregory, and Tom Bleecker.
The Mourner ran at the Exit Theater in San Francisco through the month of April, 2018.
Naseem Badie 