Once again theatre feels like the medium responding the fastest to worrying trends
around the world, with a Swedish play touching on the rise of a far-right party to
power in that country, but more so on the way this sentiment trickles down to the
man on the street. In Jonas Hassen Khemiri's
I Call My Brothers, that man is
Amor (Richard Sumitro,) an Asian man in his twenties who's out clubbing on a
Saturday night when a car bomb, soon to be attributed to an Islamic terrorist, goes
off in downtown Stockholm. We follow Amor over the next 24 hours as he goes into
town to do chores, chatting to friends and family members on the phone. The more the
day goes on the more he feels targeted and under suspicion by the police and the
public, but whether he's really being looked at differently or is imagining it might
be up for debate.
