I’M SORRY, I DON’T UNDERSTANDING: A Play by Olena Boryshpolets & Anouar Rahmani

Olena Boryshpolets and Anouar Rahmani, from Ukraine and Algeria respectively, met as fellow writers-in-residence at City of Asylum and soon joined together to write, produce, and act in their original play, Sorry, I Don’t Understanding. The play tells the story of a Ukrainian woman and an Algerian man who arrive in Pittsburgh and accidentally become neighbors. She has fled her family and country because of Russia’s war against the free people of Ukraine, he has fled Algeria because of the government’s persecution for supporting LGBT rights.