Telling Our Stories of Home by Edited by Kathy A Perkins
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product Description
What is home The answer seems obvious. But Telling Our Stories of Home an international collection of eleven plays by and about women from Lebanon Haiti Venezuela Uganda Palestine Brazil India UK and the US complicates the answer. The answer includes stories as farranging as enslaved women trying to create a home one by any means necessary and one in the ocean siblings wrestling with their differing devotion to home after their mothers death a family wrestling with the governments refusal to allow the burial of their soldierson in their hometown a young scholar attempting to feel at home after studying abroad a young man fleeing home due to his sexual orientation only to discover the difficulty of creating home elsewhere and Siddis Indians of African descent continuing to struggle for acceptance despite having lived in India for over 600 years. These are voices seldom represented to a larger audience. The plays and performance pieces range from 20 to 90minute pieces and include a mix of monologue duologue and ensemble plays. Short yet powerful they allow fantastic performance opportunities particularly in an age of socialdistancing with flexible casts that together invite the theme of home to be performed and studied on the page. The plays include The House by Arze Khodr Lebanon Happy by Kia Corthron US The Blue of the Island by Evelyne Trouillot Haiti Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni UK Leaving but Cant Let Go by Lupe Gehrenbeck Venezuela Questions of Home by Doreen Baingana Uganda On the Last Day of Spring by Fidaa Zidan Palestine Letting Go and Moving On by Louella Dizon San Juan US Antimemories of an Interrupted Trip by Aldri Anunciacao Brazil So Goes We by Jacqueline E. Lawton US and Those Who Live Here Those Who Live There by Geeta P. Siddi and Girija P. Siddi India show more
Condition : New
Author : Edited By Kathy A Perkins
Weight : 400
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language : English
EAN : 9781350259782
ISBN10 : 1350259780
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20230323
Place of Publication : United Kingdom
Pagination : 296 Pages
Dimensions : 234 X 156 X 22