Telling Our Stories of Home: International Performance Pieces By and About Women

Telling Our Stories of Home is an international collection of eleven plays by and about women from Lebanon, Haiti, Venezuela, Uganda, Palestine, Brazil, India, UK, and the US, exploring the diverse experiences of home and the challenges of creating it. The plays range from 20 to 90-minute pieces and include monologues, duologues, and ensemble plays, offering unique performance opportunities in a time of social distancing.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 27 January 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Home is a complex concept that can be interpreted in various ways.
Telling Our Stories of Home, an international collection of eleven plays by and about women from Lebanon, Haiti, Venezuela, Uganda, Palestine, Brazil, India, the UK, and the US, complicates the answer.
The collection includes stories as diverse as enslaved women striving to create a home, regardless of the means necessary, and one in the ocean; siblings grappling with their differing devotion to home after their mother's death; a family facing the government's refusal to allow the burial of their soldier-son in their hometown; a young scholar attempting to feel at home after studying abroad; a young man fleeing home due to his sexual orientation only to discover the challenges of creating a home elsewhere; and Siddis (Indians of African descent) continuing to struggle for acceptance despite having lived in India for over 600 years.
These voices are seldom represented to a larger audience.
The plays and performance pieces in the collection range from 20 to 90-minute pieces and include a mix of monologue, duologue, and ensemble plays.
Short yet powerful, they offer fantastic performance opportunities, particularly in an age of social distancing, with flexible casts that together invite the theme of home to be performed and studied on the page.
The plays included in the collection are:
The House by Arzé Khodr (Lebanon)
Happy by Kia Corthron (US)
The Blue of the Island by Évelyne Trouillot (Haiti)
Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni (UK)
Leaving, but Can't Let Go by Lupe Gehrenbeck (Venezuela)
Questions of Home by Doreen Baingana (Uganda)
On the Last Day of Spring by Fidaa Zidan (Palestine)
Letting Go and Moving On by Louella Dizon San Juan (US)
Antimemories of an Interrupted Trip by Aldri Anunciação (Brazil)
So Goes We by Jacqueline E. Lawton (US)
Those Who Live He.
These plays explore the complexities of home, including the physical spaces we inhabit, the emotional connections we form, and the challenges we face in creating a sense of belonging.
Through their narratives, the women in the collection shed light on the experiences of marginalized communities and challenge traditional notions of home and identity.
Telling Our Stories of Home is a powerful testament to the resilience and creativity of women in the face of adversity, and it provides a platform for their voices to be heard and celebrated.

Weight: 340g
Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350259782