Location:
Gorilla Theatre, 4419 Hubert Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33614.
(click here for map)

Tickets:
Adults $20/Students $10; proceeds benefit the Greater Tampa Chapter, ACLUFL

Call 813-879-2914 to reserve tickets.

Synopsis: Arrivals is a powerful drama that puts a human face on "extraordinary rendition" and threats to liberty in the post 9/11 world. Mohammad El Rafi, a Canadian citizen of Syrian birth, who legally enters the U.S. while returning to his home in Canada, is detained at JFK airport by a Homeland Security official who tells Rafi: "You're not in America." "Where am I?" Rafi replies. "A port," responds Homeland Security. Rafi finds himself in a legal limbo - stripped of his right to defend himself or even know the charges against him. While his wife and his attorney fight for his release, Homeland Security pressures Rafi to sign a statement implicating him in terrorism and agreeing to be rendered to Syria. The play was inspired by the story of Maher Arar, an innocent Canadian citizen detained at JFK in 2002 and sent to Syria for interrogation and torture. Both the Canadian and Syrian governments subsequently stated that Arar was not involved with al-Qaeda or terrorism.