Acts of Desire, Two One-Acts About the Lives of Muslim Women
Fountain Theatre (5060 Fountain Ave Los Angeles, CA 90029)
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The last date listed for Acts of Desire was Sunday December 18, 2005 / 2:00pm.
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Two stories of two different women living in present day Cairo, Egypt and how even today their voices are not being heard and they are being oppressed by the society and culture they live in.Written on Dec 19 2005
It tells in a very real way what the consequences of this silencing of their voices does to these two women.
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Magic realism sets the tone of Acts of Desire, an evening of two one-act plays: Karima's City and Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda's, by Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi. Directed by Deborah Lawlor, Acts of Desire will have its Southern California premiere at the Fountain Theatre.
Each play explores the ordinary life of a Muslim woman struggling against deep-seated cultural habits that threaten to suffocate her uniqueness. Yet each of these women finds a voice all her own.
In Karima's City, Karima is shocked and outraged at the destruction of her neighborhood's charm, as its little shops are destroyed and its trees are obliterated to make way for development. Her anger evolves into a strong voice of protest.
In Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda's, the title character makes an inner discovery: she finds in herself a beautiful singing voice she never knew she had. But nobody wants to hear it!
The cast of Acts of Desire includes: Mueen Jahan Ahmad, Naila Azad, Marc Casabani, Grace Nassar, Navid Negahban, Sarah Ripard and Marisa Vural.
Produced by Simon Levy, the design team includes: Scott Seidman (Set design), Kathi O'Donohue (lighting design), Naila Aladdin-Sanders (Costumes), Dave Marling (Sound) and Alfred Madain (Music Director).
Playwright Yussef El Guindi lives in Seattle. His most recent work, Back of The Throat, won the 2004 Northwest Playwright's Competition. The play has received productions in San Francisco and Seattle and is scheduled to be produced in Chicago, Anchorage, North Carolina and Cairo, Egypt. His other plays include Ten Acrobats In An Amazing Leap of Faith, Murder In The Mirrorand Men On Mars. He holds an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and was playwright-in-residence at Duke University.
Deborah Lawlor co-founded the multi-award-winning Fountain Theatre in 1990 with Stephen Sachs. Formerly a dancer/choreographer, Lawlor has produced countless Flamenco and Modern dance concerts at the Fountain, including the ongoing Sunday night series, Forever Flamenco and the annual Festival of Solos & Duets: A Choreographer's Showcase. In 1995, she directed The Women of Guernica, her Flamenco-based adaptation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. Also for the Fountain, she created and directed three Dance/Theatre pieces: The Song of Songs, The Path of Love and Declarations: Love Letters of the Great Romantics. She recently directed a production of The Path of Love in India.