Baba

I came to Baba through an experience I shared with Mohammad: waiting for a visa decision that could change the course of my life. When your future depends on a stranger behind a window, an ordinary bureaucratic process becomes charged with fear, hope, and an enormous imbalance of power. That experience helped me understand Mohammad’s isolation within a cold world of rules, paperwork, and invisible authority. In the production, I contrasted this colorless world with Layla’s vivid world of art, imagination, and hope. As the play moved from restriction toward discovery, the stage gradually opened into an inner landscape where memory, heritage, fantasy, and identity could meet. I wanted the production to explore how much of our origins remains alive within us, even when we try to leave it behind, and the journey we must take to understand who we truly are.