Solas Nua, in affiliation with Mosaic Theater Firm, proclaims the US premiere of the critically-acclaimed play and 2024 Edinburgh Fringe hit, My English Persian Kitchen. A strong, uplifting story written by award-winning Irish-Palestinian playwright Hannah Khalil impressed by the story of Atoosa Sepehr, the manufacturing will run November 12 – December 6, 2026 on the Atlas Performing Arts Heart and will probably be directed by Chris White. With the addition of this fifth present to Mosaic Theater’s 2026/27 season, it marks the corporate’s largest subscription season for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic. This present additionally marks the second Hannah Khalil play in Solas Nua’s Fall-Winter 2026 season. Ticket data might be discovered right here.
“This outstanding, one-of-a-kind occasion is a testomony to the resilience of everybody who has had the braveness to start once more and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Solas Nua — a fellow Atlas Resident Arts Accomplice — to convey this play to DC audiences,” acknowledged Reginald L. Douglas, Inventive Director of Mosaic Theater. “Meals has an distinctive potential to be a bridge to connection and belonging, to recollections, and a welcome into one’s tradition. At a time when distinction is just too typically seen as a legal responsibility, this play — and Atoosa’s journey — fantastically reminds us of the common threads that unite us and the way group might be discovered by means of easy acts.”
Hailed as a “completely flavorful feast of a play” by The Guardian, My English Persian Kitchen chronicles one girl’s resettlement in England after which in Belfast after fleeing an abusive husband and her house nation of Iran. Eager for her homeland, she turns to her mom’s recipes for solace and energy as she rebuilds each her life and her spirit. This one-woman play options the reside cooking of conventional Persian ash-e-reshteh (noodle soup) onstage to convey audiences collectively by means of the communal nature of meals and the enjoyment of discovering house.
My English Persian Kitchen joins beforehand introduced 2026/27 Mosaic Theater season reveals: DC Premieres of Brian Quijada’s Someplace Over the Border and Dominique Morisseau’s Unhealthy Kreyòl together with the world premieres of Collin Van Son’s Pure Historical past and Paige Hernandez’s seventh Road Echo. The manufacturing is the function theater providing of Solas Nua’s fall season, becoming a member of their multi-disciplinary programming that can embrace a play studying sequence, an affiliate manufacturing with Spooky Motion Theater, and a dialogue with Jan Carson and Lucy Caldwell, writers from Northern Eire.
Rex Daugherty, Solas Nua’s Inventive Director of Theatre shares, “Solas Nua is thrilled to proceed our help of Hannah Khalil’s work. We’ve introduced her performs throughout our play studying sequence, a co-commissioned workshop, and a earlier partnership with Shakespeare Theatre Firm. As household and pals come collectively for the vacations, Solas Nua is delighted to be joined by our pals at Mosaic to share this distinctive, food-centered manufacturing. Sharing meals and a standard desk, this vacation providing is the right option to rejoice group and tradition collectively.”
Playwright Hannah Khalil added, “I’m completely thrilled that My English Persian Kitchen could have new life in DC this Fall. Mosaic and Solas Nua are two corporations whose work I like vastly, so to have the chance to work with them to convey this well timed story about beginning once more, constructing group, and the facility of meals to a brand new viewers is extremely thrilling for me. I can’t wait!”
Discover extra data on Mosaic Theater Firm’s 2026/27 season right here.
Discover extra data on Solas Nua’s 2026/27 season right here.
My English Persian Kitchen, introduced by Solas Nua and Mosaic Theater Firm, runs November 12-December 6, 2026, on the Atlas Performing Arts Heart, 1333 H St NE, Washington, DC. Tickets vary from $42-$70 and can be found on-line. Discounted tickets can be found for seniors, college students, educators, army and first responders, and patrons below 30. See Mosaic’s web site for particulars.
Mosaic Theater Firm Schooling and Engagement
Reflection Collection
Accompanying all of those productions will probably be Mosaic’s landmark Reflection Collection programming — a sequence of particular occasions, panels, and conversations that spotlight the themes of Mosaic’s performs, construct progressive partnerships with over 40 native and nationwide organizations, and have interaction numerous audiences in dialogue with each other, permitting Mosaic to achieve all eight wards of DC by means of its programming.
Intergenerational Matinees
A cornerstone of its schooling and group engagement work, Mosaic’s Intergenerational Matinees function a catalyst for connection, inviting dialogue round our predominant stage performs’ frequent themes. After watching performs collectively, highschool college students and seniors will have interaction in post-show conversations with Mosaic’s artists and each other.
Youth Playwriting Contest
Mosaic continues its work to uplift and encourage the following era of nice playwrights by means of its Youth Playwriting Contest. This 12 months’s contest grows to incorporate center college college students within the Washington, DC-metro space, together with Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, and Northern Virginia, along with excessive schoolers. The competition culminates in a public studying of the profitable submissions held at a department of the DC Public Library and that includes skilled administrators and dealing actors.
ABOUT SOLAS NUA
Solas Nua — that means ‘new mild’ in Irish — is a number one multi-disciplinary arts group that’s devoted completely to modern Irish arts. Based mostly in Washington, DC, Solas Nua acts as an envoy and advocate for Irish arts within the US by producing and selling modern, multi-disciplinary Irish arts and tradition throughout completely different media (theatre, literature, poetry, movie, music, visible arts, and dance). Solas Nua’s programming displays its conviction that Irish arts journey throughout borders, cultures, and socio-economic strains.
ABOUT MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC
Mosaic Theater Firm of DC produces daring, culturally numerous theater that illuminates vital points, elevates recent voices, and sparks connection amongst communities all through our area and past. Beneath the management of Inventive Director Reginald L. Douglas and Managing Director Serge Seiden, Mosaic produces performs that each entertain and enlighten, utilizing artwork to construct empathy amongst numerous individuals united by the magic of theater, and hopes to construct group by reflecting the numerous cultures that decision DC house.
