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 Seven
Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack,
Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith and Susan Yankowitz
Documentary
Full Length
7 women: 7 total
Flexible Set
"Riveting, explosive, and inspiring drama…starkly
emotive…reaffirm[s] the belief that one person could
indeed make a difference."—Huffington Post. "It
was impossible not to be inspired by the widely varying examples
of courage that the project corralled." —Washington
Post. "[A] coherent testimony of fundamental, frightening
and shameful oppression of women all over the world—in
the name of traditional economical, political and physical
male power…It is an overwhelming experience to hear these
women through the actors: brief, unsentimental, universal
and personal. One cries. And becomes a little wiser."
—Dagens Nyheter (Sweden).
Book/Item: SEVEN
Price: $7.50
ISBN/Code: 978-0-8222-2351-1
FEE: $75 per performance.
A collaboration of seven award-winning
women playwrights, SEVEN is based on personal interviews with
seven women leaders of the Vital Voices Global Partnership
network who have triumphed over huge obstacles to create major
changes in human rights in their home countries. In the seven
interwoven stories we see the commonality of challenge and
of bravery, and in the individual monologues that follow,
we experience each fascinating whole true story.
Susan Yankowitz has written about Mukhtar
Mai of Pakistan, an illiterate peasant woman who was gang
raped by four men and forced to walk home almost naked in
retribution for an alleged “honor crime.” Ms. Mai
and her harrowing story grabbed headlines across the world.
Instead of taking the traditional “women’s”
route of committing suicide, she brought her rapists to justice,
built schools to improve the condition of women, and became
an advocate for education in her country.
SEVEN recently had performances in Deauville,
France; Stockholm, Sweden; Washington, D.C.; Aspen, and London,
England. It is currently on a long tour in Sweden.
Access this link for a rave account of
the first New York performance on The Huffington Post by Marcia
Yerman (www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-g-yerman/world-premiere-of-seve_b_83951.html)
Click to hear an interview with Susan Yankowitz,
Carol Mack and Inez McCormack on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show
or go to www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/01/18
For more information on this project, please
go to www.seventheplay.com
or contact rfreedmanagent@aol.com
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