A Girl's War: An Armenian-Azeri Love Story
Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
Rated 3.6 by 5 members who went.
This love story of opposite sides was named one of the top 10 plays of 2001 by the Boston Globe. A New York fashion model learns that her brother has been killed by enemy soldiers in her native Karabakh, formerly part of the Soviet Union, where Armenians and Azerbaijanis are at civil war. She returns home for the first time in 15 years and lives with her Armenian soldier mother, only to fall in love with a young Azeri deserter.
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Golden Thread Productions presents ReOrient 2009 - The First Ten Years. The annual festival of short plays exploring the modern Middle East celebrates its tenth anniversary with two separate programs and nine total plays. Comedies and dramas feature topics including love, international relations and the clash between the Middle East's modern culture and its ancient traditions. See below for a full schedule. Learn More
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- "...the thrilling A Girl's War...focuses on individual conflicts as a way to bring us dangerously close to the gunfire." --Boston Herald
- "The six characters may be archetypal, but they are also fully developed, living, and breathing people." --Boston Globe
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Website: http://www.goldenthread.org/0809/agirlswar.html
First produced at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in 2001, A Girl’s War was named one of the "top ten" plays of the year by the Boston Globe. A play about the impact of the Karabakh war on one family, it played to sold-out houses, winning the John Gassner Playwriting Award and the Provincetown Theatre Company Playwriting Award. In 2003, New Repertory Theatre produced the play, again to critical acclaim and sold-out houses. A Girl’s War was nominated in 2003 for the prestigious American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award, and published in the anthology Contemporary Armenian American Drama (Columbia Univ. Press, 2004). Joyce has since gone on to win commissions and playwriting fellowships from Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, and the MacDowell Colony. She is now working on a new play dealing with the intertwined lives of two women who come to America after the Armenian genocide.
During a stormy fashion shoot, Anna Sarkisian, a New York fashion model, learns that her younger brother has been killed by enemy soldiers in her native Karabakh in the Caucasus Mountains. In the Armenian enclave of Karabakh, formerly part of the Soviet Union, an unresolved civil war still smolders between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. The war has already killed Anna’s older brother and driven her mother into the army. Anna decides to return home to her village for the first time in 15 years. Living with her fiercely partisan Armenian mother in the bombed ruin of her childhood home, Anna defiantly refuses to identify herself with the Armenian cause. Tensions ignite when, Ilyas, a young Azeri deserter shows up, claiming to be a former neighbor. Anna and Ilyas, powerfully drawn to one another, become lovers in secret. The competing desires of love and vengeance, fueled by jealousy, propel the characters toward an explosive climax with tragic consequences.
Golden Thread Productions
Golden Thread Productions is dedicated to theatre that explores Middle Eastern cultures and identities as represented throughout the globe.
Their mission is to build an organization that consistently produces the highest quality theatre about Middle Eastern culture and to establish a dynamic artistic community and an expanding audience. And to make the Middle East a regular part of the American Theatre Experience and make theatre a regular part of the Middle Eastern community's cultural experience.
