The Strange Language of "Invasion!" by Laura Hedli

How do you translate the made-up words in a Swedish play? Swedish-Tunisian playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri rarely makes a simple statement. He manipulates the mechanics of language—the construction of sentences, the ambiguity of meaning—so that even short phrases become suggestively complex. That’s especially true of his play Invasion!, where every line pulses with dark comedy [...]

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