Michael performs at Arena Stage tonight
In their “Downstairs Reading” Michael performs the role of Umar Khazali
The Near East
by Alex Lewin
directed by Gregg Henry
March 24, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Crystal City
Lewin is a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego. In his play, an American archaeologist teams up with an Arab activist to unearth the “Mother of Books,” the oldest scripture, from its resting place in the desert between Mecca and Medina. But their controversial mission affects a number of other characters, including Umar Khazail, a secretly gay Arab radical, a British spy and the ghost of a precocious 13-year-old boy.