March 3 - April 2, 2023 in Goodman's Owen Theatre

LAYALINA

A surprising new play about how families fall apart—and find each other again—amidst turbulent global and social change.

In 2003, newly-wed Layal and her family prepare to immigrate from Baghdad, Iraq, to a Chicago suburb. Seventeen years later, Layal’s life looks unimaginably different from what she had envisioned two decades prior, as she and her siblings explore queerness, face their grief, and discover what it takes to make home in a new place. Don’t miss this moving, powerful new play’s world premiere on the Owen Stage—fresh from Goodman’s New Stages and Future Labs programs.

By Martin Yousif Zebari

Directed by Sivan Battat

Sound Designer Ronnie Malley

Co-Sound Designer Eric Backus