The 220-minute comedy that made Kuwait ask: who's really serving who?
A Kuwait play about a family that is looking for a house maid to help them with house work and displays house maid problems and how badly they are treated.
Acting
Mohammed Al-Mansour's patriarchal buffoonery is painfully perfect.
Writing
Sharp social commentary disguised as domestic farce.
Director
Najaf Jamal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This play emerged during Kuwait's 1980s domestic labor boom, when South Asian and African workers transformed Gulf households.
Director Najaf Jamal was known for making audiences laugh at characters they'd uncomfortably recognize in their own living rooms.
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