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Homegrown is a play about a friendship between a terrorist suspect and a writer.It is based on the actual friendship that developed between Toronto writer Catherine Frid and Shareef Abdelhaleem who was arrested with 17 other Muslims from the Greater Toronto Area.According to Theatre critic Richard Ouzounian the Prime Minister’s Office warned the public that the play presented a sympathetic portrayal of a terrorist—before the play had been performed.David Akin an Ottawa based political reporter for the Toronto Sun described the play as being important enough to justify traveling from Ottawa to Toronto for the play’s premiere.The Washington Times republished one of Akin’s articles on the play.According to Michael Wheeler a prominent Canadian playwright Akin broke ranks with the rest of the Parliamentary press gallery when he asked the Prime Minister about Homegrown.