Playwright Wendy Graf grapples with the reasons a young American woman would convert to Islamic radicalism in her world premiere solo show, “All American Girl,” an InterACT Theatre Company production at the Lounge Theatre.
Annika Marks, alternating with Jeanne Syquia, plays the extremely impressionable Katie, seen at various stages of her life from childhood to young womanhood.
Raised in comfortable circumstances in a sedate suburb, Katie has the kind of simplistic worldview that makes her a perfect candidate for impassioned extremism. When Katie marries Igbal, an Indian Muslim student she meets in college, she ardently embraces her husband’s culture, faith – and fatal disenchantment.