For security reasons, Three Testaments: Shalom, Peace, Salam is moving to upstate New York for its 2015 premiere in June. Details of venue and dates to follow next month. The play returns to NYC for a run at the West End Theatre in May of 2016 as originally planned if all goes well. In an era of terror and extremism the producers and the director have expressed a desire to open first “under the radar” of anyone who might be unreasonably enraged at the way in which the role of Muhammad is presented on stage. Muhammad, Fatima and Salman are represented by birds in costume with female (“birdlike”) voices, as you may picture from the prelude soliloquy as follows for the interest of those who have been following these developments.

PROLOGUE