Over the next nine weeks, Little Amal will be traveling 40 U.S. cities — and is journeying through Philadelphia starting Wednesday.
“She’s become such an incredible, powerful symbol for the best that we can be in our culture,” Taibi Magar, co-artistic director of Philadelphia Theatre Company, said of Little Amal.
“Many of us spent some time with just a few of the millions of people who had made these very long journeys… And they had done so because they had no option,” said David Lan, a producer on Little Amal’s team. “As theater people, we were thinking, how do people respond to that kind of experience? We came up with creating one of those journeys.”
But not Little Amal. She’s giant, towering over the thousands of people who walk with her in every city she visits. They’re forced to see her, moreover, they’re forced to witness her humanity. If you can empathize with a puppet, Zuabi said, can you then extend that empathy to other humans, despite your differences?
“Little Amal felt like such a beautiful act of art that was really effective,” Magar said. “I was just enamored, because I think the best thing that theater does is it enacts your imagine… Imagination is the key to social justice, because if you can’t imagine it, you can’t fight for it.”When Magar and Dobrowsky started preparing for Little Amal’s visit, they wanted to create an event that would tie her to Philly — and they decided to draw the connection to Philly’s housing crisis.
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