2003
Winner of Gay Chicago Magazine's 2003 After Dark Award for Outstanding New Work was issued to playwright Jamil Khoury for his play "Precious Stones."
Read MoreSet in 1950’s small town Kansas, Tea tells the story of four women who come together to clean the house of a fifth after her tragic suicide upsets the balance of life in their small Japanese immigrant community. The spirit of the dead woman returns as a ghostly ringmaster to force the women to come to terms with the disquieting tension of their lives and find common ground. Her destiny requires she escape the limbo between life and death, and move on to the next world in peace, carving a future passage for the others.
Read MoreJamil Khoury's Precious Stones has garnered accolades and praise from professors in various disciplines. The list continues to grow!
Read MoreAn evocative journey into the lives of four gay men, three Asians and one Caucasian. A Language of Their Own is a lyrical and dramatic meditation on the nature of love, desire, sexuality, and self-definition as the four men come together and drift apart in a series of interconnecting stories.
Read MorePrecious Stones boldly examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the "safe" yet turbulent terrain of American Diaspora. Set in Chicago in 1989, the story unfolds against a backdrop of disturbing images, as the first Palestinian Intifadah rages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Two women, one Jewish and one Palestinian, join forces to organize an Arab-Jewish dialogue group, only to find themselves falling in love. As they each cross "enemy lines," they stumble upon the disputed territories of sexuality and class.
Read MoreCourse included a performance of Jamil Khoury's Precious Stones, followed by a post-show discussion with the playwright, the actors, and two experts on the socio-political background of the play, Dr. Ghada Talhami, Professor of Politics at Lake Forest College, and Rabbi Rebecca Lillian. The discussion explored the complex and divisive questions that the play raises about belonging, love, family, and community.
Read MoreAll's fair in love and war--or is it? That's a question central to Jamil Khoury's Precious Stones, a world premiere that opened last month at the Studio Theatre. Precious Stones is the inaugural production of the Silk Road Theatre Project, a nonprofit, non-Equity theater troupe based in Chicago and created to showcase playwrights of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean backgrounds.
Read MoreRegardless of your sex or sexual orientation, all you have to do is be at least semi-conscious to the events of modern life and you'll find plenty to be despondent about and LOTS to laugh at.
Read MoreJust when you thought that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could not get any thornier or more complicated and intractable, Chicago-based writer Jamil Khoury arrives with his new play, Precious Stones. RECOMMENDED
Read MorePlaywright Jamil Khoury is not afraid of jumping into the middle of emotionally charged situations-in real life or on stage.
Read MorePrecious Stones boldly examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the "safe" yet turbulent terrain of American Diaspora. Set in Chicago in 1989, the story unfolds against a backdrop of disturbing images, as the first Palestinian Intifadah rages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Two women, one Jewish and one Palestinian, join forces to organize an Arab-Jewish dialogue group, only to find themselves falling in love. As they each cross "enemy lines," they stumble upon the disputed territories of sexuality and class.
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