Sunday August 8, 2010, at 6:30 PM

Special Guests: Ezzat Goushegir, Mahmoud Behrouzian
and Ziba Shirazi

There will be a panel discussion following the film moderated
by Hassan Fayyad

Screening of:

The Bride of Acacias
By: Ezzat Goushegir

 

A one woman show, based on life of the prominent Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, whose poetry made a significant impact on men and women in Iran.

Set in Iran and Germany in 1950s and 1960s, the play opens up with a rebellious act in a secluded room, while simultaneously an American Coup by a CIA agent takes place outside the room, which overthrows the democratically elected government of Iran.

Forugh in search of the nature of love and freedom begins a long journey through impossibilities. By taking a perilous path, she defines a new perception of humane politics and morality, explores her own model of womanhood, and the manifestation of women’s liberation.

THE DOLL BEHIND THE CURTAIN

A play based on a short story by Sadegh Hedayat
Adapted by Ezzat Goushegir

Stage Reading:

Mahmood Behroozian and Roya Aryanpad
Directed by Mahmood Behroozian

 

To Listen to the Audio of this play Click Here

An adaptation of Sadegh Hedayat’s short story of the same title. This play emphasizes a young man's fascination for a silent statue behind a boutique’s window in Paris. Infatuated by her mysterious beauty, he pays all his saving to own this soulless mannequin. The play explores the complexity of love, sexuality and intimacy from the perspective of an eccentric man, torn in between tradition and modernity.

For Persian Text Click Here

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An Excerpt from: Two Iranian Children
By Ezzat Goushegir

Stage Reading: Ziba Shirazi, Roya Aryanpad and Danielle Jacobs

A play about two Iranian twin sisters reuniting after twenty two years of separation caused by Islamic revolution, where their life turned into completely opposite directions.

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Ezzat Goushegir will also present two short plays; "Another Phaedra in The Desert" in Women and Theatre Program conference at UCLA in August 2nd and “Rapunzel’s Gone Bald” in ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) Conference at Hyatt Regency Hotel in August 6Th.

For more information please visit the websites:
http://www.athe.org/
http://www.athe.org/conference/index
http://www.athe.org/wtp/html/conference_schedule_2010.html
Performing the Female Body: Staged Readings of
Eroticism, Power, and Class (Little Theatre)
Time: 9:30-10:50 AM, August 2nd
Place: UCLA's Macgowan Hall

 

Ezzat Goushegir, received her M.F.A from the University of Iowa, is a playwright, author and film critic. She has published four books in Farsi. Her plays are anthologized in English and have been produced by a variety of theater companies including Medea Was Born in Fallujah, Maryam’s Pregnancy and Behind the curtains, which won two awards. She was a Fellow Writer in the Iowa City IWP, a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Maryland, and co-director and dramaturge of a reading series at New Federal Theatre in New York. She is the member of “The Dramatists Guild of America”, “The Association of Writers and Writing Program” and Women and Theatre Program. She currently teaches at SNL at DePaul University in Chicago.