The Wrong Bashir by Zahida Rahemtulla is currently playing at Crow’s Theatre in a production directed by Paolo Santalucia.  The story is set in the Isma’ili community in Toronto and all the families concerned were among those kicked out of Uganda by Idi Amin.  Quite a lot of the story concerns Isma’ili religious institutions and practices about which I am woefully ignorant.  Not knowing doesn’t detract from the experience of seeing the play and I have used circumlocutions below rather than try and figure out the technical terms used in the play

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