Two recent plays of Ezzat Goushegir,"My Name is Inanna" and "You're Not a Man!" will be performed by herself on Saturday March 28, 2009 at 4:30 PM and April 11, 2009 at 4: PM as part of The Epic Players' Exploring the Humanities through Persian Culture in The Copernicus Cultural and Civic Center in Chicago. "My Name is Inanna" will also be performed at Left Forum in New York in April 19, 2009.

Description of my two plays:


You Are Not a Man!

Ahmad an Afghan interpreter and two American interrogators working for a military base in Afghanistan, speak their truth about an innocent young farmer and taxi driver who was shackled and brutally tortured for four days and died at Bagram prison, a detention center 40 miles north of Kabul.

My Name is Inanna

The main character Inanna, retrieved from the historical texts, the Sumerian goddess of love, justice and civilization, is a modern Middle Eastern woman who is in search of identity, justice and freedom, leaves her mother country, where she had been imprisoned there under the dictatorial regime for several years until she flees the country in search of freedom. After receiving a political asylum in the U.S., dreaming of democracy, she practices the expression of freedom of speech. But she faces new forms of sexism, racism and false-democratic slogans. It is a crucial historical moment after September 11, and she is being arrested for her opposition to war in the Middle Eastern region. Handcuffed alone in a holding area, she speaks for 55 minutes, reliving her experiences of politics and incarceration in her native country, as well as those of her newly adopted country.

http://www.leftforum.org/?q=2009/panels / http://www.epicplayers.com/
http://ezzatgoushegir.blogspot.com/

Her play "Now Smile!" was also translated into Arabic: http://www.alrabetta.ae/Read3258.html


Place(Chicago): The Copernicus Cultural and Civic Center 5216 W. Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60630 Box Office: (773)777-8899
http://www.copernicusfdn.org/