Creator and performer Adil Mansoor brings us on his deeply personal journey to translate and adapt the play Antigone with his Ammi (his mother). Despite the deep love between them, their relationship is strained – Ammi struggles to accept Adil’s queerness and turns towards her faith in an attempt to save her son in the afterlife. Adil turns to an ancient Greek theatrical text to break the silence between them. Amm(i)gone asks: How do you choose between love and faith? What is lost (or gained) in translation, and what transcends language itself? Through Greek tragedy, teachings from the Quran, and audio conversations in Urdu and English, Mansoor creates a theatrical blend of lecture and personal story about locating love across faith.
For those wishing to pray the sunset prayer, we invite you to use the prayer space across the lobby from the theatre.”
Know Before You Go
Performance Information
Long Wharf Theatre’s production of Amm(i)gone is staged at the THEATER AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES BLACK BOX AT YALE UNIVERSITY.
- It is general admission seating.
- Late seating will be at the discretion of the house manager and is not guaranteed.
- If you step out during the performance, there will be no re-entry.
- Join us for a free post-show conversation after each performance.
For those wishing to pray the sunset prayer, we invite you to use the prayer space across the lobby from the theatre.
When & Where to Arrive
Enter the building by the ramp entrance on Church Street across from the Superior Court Building
The building will open 1 hour before the performance. As you wait, enjoy a beverage at our non-alcoholic concession stand. The theatre will open 30 minutes before show time.
Parking
Parking is available on the surrounding street. We recommend you leave additional time to find parking in downtown New Haven. Nearby parking garages and lots include:
One Century Tower Garage (312 feet)
- 265 Church St, New Haven, CT 06510
- $4 per hour (entrance on Grove Street)
Grove Street Garage (.1 miles)
- (65 Grove Street, New Haven, CT 06510)
- Monday to Friday 6 am to 9 pm
- $4 per hour
Audubon Court Garage (.3 miles)
- 78 Audubon Street New Haven CT 06510
- Monday to Friday 7 am to 10 pm
- Saturday 8 am to 6 pm, Sunday Closed
- $.75 per 1/2 hour up to 2 hours
- 2.5 hours = $4.24
- 3 hours = $5.10
YALE Lot 51 (.1 miles)
- Lot 51 310 Temple Street, New Haven, CT 06510
- Free after 4 pm and Weekends ONLY
Accessibility
ASL (American Sign Language) Interpreted performance: June 8 @ 2 PM
Open Captioned Performance: June 6 @ 7 PM
The Theater and Performance Studies Black Box at Yale University is accessible by the ramp entrance on Church Street.
There is no parking or handicap-accessible spots at the building.
Audience seating will be elevated. The first row will not require stairs. Priority seating will be provided for those with accessibility needs. If you need a seat closer to the performers for vision or hearing needs, limited mobility, or wheelchair accommodation, please contact our Box Office at boxoffice@longwharf.org or call/text (203) 693-1486.
Large print programs are available upon request at our Box Office.
Two individual all-gender restrooms and the men’s restroom are located on the ground floor. The women’s room is located on the lower level accessible by stairs. There is no elevator to the lower level.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
The Tony Award®-winning Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company creates badass theatre that highlights the stunning, challenging, and tremendous complexity of our world. For over 40 years, Woolly has maintained a high standard of artistic rigor while simultaneously daring to take risks, innovate, and push beyond perceived boundaries. One of the few remaining theatres in the country to maintain a company of artists, Woolly serves an essential research and development role within the American theatre. Plays premiered here have gone on to productions at hundreds of theatres all over the world and have had lasting impacts on the field. Currently co-led by Artistic Director Maria Manuela Goyanes and Managing Director Kimberly E. Douglas, Woolly is located in Washington, DC, equidistant from the Capitol and the White House. This unique location influences Woolly’s investment in actively working towards an equitable, participatory, and creative democracy.
Woolly Mammoth stands upon occupied, unceded territory: the ancestral homeland of the Nacotchtank whose descendants belong to the Piscataway peoples. Furthermore, the foundation of this city, and most of the original buildings in Washington, DC, were funded by the sale of enslaved people of African descent and built by their hands.
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Named after 20th century entertainment legends Gene Kelly and Billy Strayhorn, both natives of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) is a home for creative experimentation, community dialogue, and collective action rooted in the liberation of Black and queer people. We welcome our home to all who uplift Black, Indigenous, people of color, and queer voices.
KST is an institutional arts anchor in Pittsburgh’s East End that has served the community for decades. Since launching KST Presents programming in ’08, KST has been Black-led, fostering radical imagination for Black and queer arts, culture, and community in Pittsburgh by cultivating BIPOC and/or queer artists, entrepreneurs, and arts administrators, developing their careers, and shifting narratives around Black possibility.
