This is dynamic, funny, incisive theatre.
Australian Stage Online

...a lavish feast of character, comedy and story. Superbly staged by Company B, Baghdad Wedding is a triumph.
Sydney, Time Out

Hassan Abdulrazzak

Geordie Brookman

Ben Winspear, Yalin Ozucelik, Arky Michael, Tahki Saul, Osamah Sami, Julia Billington, Melanie Vallejo, Robert Mammone and Tim Walter

A wedding is not a wedding in Iraq unless shots are fired.

Salim likes London. He got his medical degree, had an affair with a man and wrote a successful novel about it. But now Saddam Hussein’s gone and Salim’s going home to get married.

Sexy, funny and thrilling, this is life in Iraq as we never get to see it. Salim and his friends drink, love, argue, hope and tumble between escaping and succumbing as their country staggers to its feet again.

In 2005, 30-something Hassan Abdulrazzak queued with hundreds of fellow emigres in London to vote in Iraq’s first post-Hussein elections. When that great hope went belly-up, Abdulrazzak wrote his first play. After it opened the Evening Standard said, “The Prime Minister and his cabinet should take a brief course in political illumination. They should go to see Baghdad Wedding”. Company B’s friends in the UK immediately sent us the script!

Previews

Saturday 7 February and Sunday 8 February

Performance Times

Tuesday 6.30pm, Wednesday - Friday 8pm, Saturday 2pm & 8pm, Sunday 5pm

Backstage Q & A

Wednesday 18 March at 6pm

Unwaged Performances

Thursday 19 March at 2pm

Carole's Club

Sunday 15 February at 4pm

Please Note

Running Time: 1hr 45min (no interval)

Contains explicit language, scenes of a sexual nature, loud noises and smoke effects. Not recommended for people under 16.