Three Plays by Theatre with Accent

In the second reading series by Theatre with Accent on Friday June 24, 2011, we presented three Short Plays by Mohsen Azimi, Hattie He and Ezzat Goushegir, directed by Azar Kazemi and acted by Bridget Schreiber & Adam Brown at Mess hall

My Name is Inanna in Beijing-China

My Name is Inanna in Beijing- China

My Name is Inanna at Mess Hall

“My Name is Inanna” was the first play in a quarterly reading series of “Theatre With Accent” at Mess Hall, Chicago on Friday January 28, 2011.

Mess Hall
6932 N Glenwood Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
Neighborhood: Rogers Park

Three Short Plays

In the second reading series by Theatre with Accent we are presenting three Short Plays by Mohsen Azimi, Hattie He and Ezzat Goushegir.
Director: Azar Kazemi
Actors: Bridget Schreiber
              Adam Brown

Place: Mess Hall

6932 N Glenwood Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
Neighborhood: Rogers Park

Date: Friday June 24, 2011

Time: 7: PM to 9: 00 PM

Admission is free to the public.

Theatre with Accent is a non-profit theater group in Chicago, mainly for playwrights who have many things to say but very little sources to be heard. This is a cultural “Home” for immigrant playwrights, minorities and those living in diasporas and exile. We will conduct a quarterly public reading series based on selected works, collaborating with professional directors and actors, followed by in-depth discussion with the audience about serious issues raised in the plays.

     1-Things are not always the same

By: Mohsen Azim

Translation: Setareh Behroozi

A free adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's "A Temporary Matter", the play opens with the Woman, a twenty-six year-old wife, a nurse at maternity hospital, arriving home at the end of a workday finding her husband sitting behind his desk writing plays about their own life. Things are Not Always the Same is a journey through life and relationships between women and men in contemporary Iran.

2-      On the Lantern Festival

By Hattie He

On the Lantern Festival is a romantic comedy about two characters trapped in an elevator in 100^th floor of a high building. The play revolves around the robotic life in our modern time and humans need for connection and fulfillment.

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3-      Medea was born in Fallujah

By Ezzat Goushegir

A modern adaptation of Medea by Euripides, this short play illustrates Medea, an Iraqi woman living in exile in the U.S. faces Fallujah her birth place being invaded and her family brutally massacred in a violent attack. Medea, torn apart with guilt and disturbances; broken and distressed, takes a brutal revenge.

My Name is Inanna

Theatre with Accent had its first reading in February 2011 at Mess Hall.

My Name is Inanna

“My Name is Inanna” is the first play in a quarterly reading series of “Theatre With Accent” at Mess Hall, Chicago on Friday January 28, 2011.
Mess Hall

6932 N Glenwood Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
Neighborhood: Rogers Park

The play will be performed by Ezzat Goushegir and Kristin Lems

 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 tyrannical 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 the invasion of Iraq, 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.

Theatre With Accent

Theatre With Accent is a non-profit theater group in Chicago, mainly for playwrights who have many things to say but very little sources to be heard. This is a cultural “Home” for immigrant playwrights, minorities and those living in diaspora and exile. We will conduct a quarterly public reading series based on selected works, collaborating with professional directors and actors, followed by in-depth discussion with the audience about serious issues raised in the plays.