Silence
- Company
- Grey Days Collective
- Writer
-
Fawad Khan
- Runtime
- 60 minutes
When a son vanishes under state repression, a Pakistani family teeters on the edge. His brother, burdened by fear, urges them to move on. His mother, haunted by absence, refuses—her hope a quiet act of resistance. Their fractured grief echoes global silences: India’s missing activists, Sudan’s midnight arrests, Congo’s ghosts, Palestine’s abductions, America’s ICE detainees. As memory collides with survival, Silence becomes a visceral elegy for families left in limbo. In the cracks of silence, the disappeared endure.
“To mourn without a grave. To fight without a name.”
Credits
- Director
- Zain Ahmed
- Producer
- Virasat
- Producer
- Zain Ahmed
- Cast
- Mahnoor Khan
- Cast
- Matt Scerri
- Cast
- Naveed Kamal
- Cast
- Andrea Larrañaga
- Stage Manager
- Amanda Myrden
Performances
| Date | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preview | 2nd July | 3:15pm | ||
| 4th July | 4:15pm | |||
| 6th July | 10:15pm | |||
| 8th July | 7:45pm | |||
| 9th July | 2:30pm | |||
| 11th July | 1:00pm | |||
| 12th July | 6:30pm |
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Venue
18 : Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
79 Saint George St
Toronto
Ontario
M5S 3L8
Access
- Level of Physical Access
- Accessible
Covid-19 policy
- Masks
- Not required
More about the show and company
Rooted in the South Asian Muslim immigrant experience, our collective has spent five years weaving stories of exile, memory, and quiet resistance into multidisciplinary performance. We create from the in-between—where longing meets legacy, and art becomes a home.
Land acknowledgement
As a collective of immigrants and settlers, we begin by acknowledging that we live and create on land that is the traditional territory of many Indigenous nations, including the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
We are on land governed by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, a treaty that reminds us of our responsibility to care for this territory in the spirit of peace and mutual respect.
We recognize that our presence here is part of a larger colonial system—one that continues to dispossess Indigenous peoples of their lands, languages, and sovereignty. As immigrants, we are acutely aware of the ways we may be complicit in these ongoing injustices.
We do not take this lightly. We are committed to learning from Indigenous communities, standing in solidarity with their struggles, and actively working to undo systems of oppression in our own spaces. This acknowledgment is not a checkbox—it is a call to responsibility, relationship, and repair.
Content advice
Not recommended for persons under 14 years of age
Sensory description
More information to come