Join PMA for a production of I Want a Country, a play by Andreas Flourakis, translated by Eleni Drivas, and directed by Samuel Buggeln, Artistic and Executive Director of The Cherry Arts. The show will take place in the Flex Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, on Friday, October 24, at 7:30 pm; Saturday, October 25, at 7:30 pm; Friday, October 31, at 7:30 pm; and Saturday, November 1, at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm. Get your free tickets here.

What do you do when the country you considered yourself at home in suddenly seems to be falling apart? What even makes it the same country that it was in the past? What is the status of the migrant who no longer has a country? In general: are we all doomed, or is there hope?  

In the decade since it was written, I Want a Country has been produced over 25 times around the world. Since its debut in London, the play has had productions in New York, Greece, Mexico, Germany, India, Colombia, Peru, Switzerland, and beyond. This playful, passionate, unlikely script has rapidly become one of the most important pieces of international theater writing in the last decade.  

This event is co-sponsored by the Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Sam Buggeln is the founding Artistic and Executive Director of The Cherry Arts, as well as an award-winning theater translator and one of the US’s preeminent directors of new international plays. Learn more about his work.

Andreas Flourakis is a playwright. He has written more than thirty works for theater, which have been translated into many languages. Learn more about his work.