The Black Eyed
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Play Description
Four Arab women from across the ages meet in the afterlife. As these characters — who include the Biblical Delilah and a secular modern Arab-American — struggle to come to terms with their lives and their choices, this shockingly funny play skewers traditional views on sex, family, and terrorism.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 female)Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
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Press Quotes
“A gorgeously conceived and realized drama … [Shamieh’s] theatrical imagination, in its agility and its urgency, brings to mind Tony Kushner, whose faith in eloquence as an instrument of change is echoed here.” —The New Yorker
“Shamieh’s writing is powerful! Violence haunts the four Palestinian women occupying an anteroom of the afterlife … these souls in Samuel Beckett-like transit are The Black Eyed which happens to be the title of Betty Shamieh’s provocative theater piece.” —International Herald Tribune
“A chillingly beautiful piece about the relationship between seduction and violence!” —San Francisco Weekly
“From its first words, Shamieh’s play grabs you and won’t let go.” —Oakland Tribune
“Shamieh’s writing is thoughtful, her perspective informed.” —The New York Times
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 1/1/2009 |
Pages | 132 |
ISBN | 9780881454017 |
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
Premiered at The Magic Theater, San Francisco
Subsequently produced at Fournos Theatre in Athens, Greece
and at New York Theater Workshop
In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com