Northern Iraq: August of 2015. It is one year since ISIS massacred the Yazidi people in Sinjar and began sex-trafficking Yazidi women. The Unbelievers follows Sanaa, a Yazidi woman and Orli, a conflict journalist, after their capture by ISIS. Two women are alone on opposite sides of a crisis; together they must find a way to endure.
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2015, SummerWorks & Lace Productions, Toronto
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Playwrights Guild of Canada
Digital Script
Casting note: There is a chorus of Yazidi women at the end, this chorus is non-speaking and exclusively movement based. This chorus can range from 8-as large as the director sees fit.
Casting note: There is a chorus of Yazidi women at the end, this chorus is non-speaking and exclusively movement based. This chorus can range from 8-as large as the director sees fit.
Stylized
In The Matka King—a story that pits human nature against love and chance—a landscape of betrayal and redemption comes to life in the red-light district of Bombay, India. One very powerful eunuch, Top Rani, operates an illicit lottery (the Matka - or earthen pot) through his brothel. When a gambler who is deeply in debt makes an unexpected wager, the stakes become life and death.
Stylized
Apsara, Bombay’s most infamous dancer, lives with her iron-willed mother, Padma, in an apartment by the sea. Padma takes money from men so they can watch her daughter perform a mesmerizing dance. When a mysterious blind man named Kamal visits for a private dance, his secret link to their past threatens to change each of their lives forever.
