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
The story of Trayvon Martin’s first hours in the afterlife. February 26, 2012, Florida. A 17-year-old Black boy wearing a hoodie leaves a 7/11 carrying a bag of Skittles and an iced tea. He never makes it home. Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers invites us into the infamous world of one teen, into his last moments, and into his intricate dance to the afterlife.
Stylized
A deeply affecting and thought-provoking re-imagining of Ovid's masterpiece "Tereus, Procne, and Philomela," Erin Shields's award-winning play is an unflinching commentary on contemporary war and its aftermath delivered through the lens of Greek tragedy. If We Were Birds examines the horrors of war, giving voice to a woman long ago forced into silence, and placing a spotlight on millions of female victims who have been silenced through violence.
