When Shapoor, an Iranian with immigration issues and parental problems, is accused of beating his wife, he is arrested by a white police officer, who is both racist yet dedicated to preventing violence against women. A black social worker and activist, committed to zero tolerance on violence against women, comes to the officer's defence despite the public being led by Shapoor’s friend fighting against the racism. Shapoor’s wife, must choose between staying with Shapoor due to family pressure, or leaving and potentially getting Shapoor deported.
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1996, Teesri Duniya Theatre, Montreal
2003
Second Scene Editions
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Historical
Bhopal, 1984: With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living near the factory? And the poison gas explosion that will leave three thousand people dead in just a few minutes—and will kill tens of thousands more in the years to come. How could this have happened?
Stylized
Yolanda and Adanma are young female resistance fighters who find themselves sharing the same jail cell in the final years of Angola's civil war. During that decades-long conflict, underage girls often would be forcibly kidnapped and married to UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) militants. Rather than submit to that fate, Yolanda & Adanma have become "Sarahs", members of an all-female rebel movement led by a charismatic leader with whom both Yolanda & Adanma are in love and whom they are now in danger of betraying as a result of their imprisonment and torture.
