“Theater with an Accent” Reading: Three Plays @ Mess Hall

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

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 Azimi
  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 100th floor of a high building. The play
revolves around the robotic life in our modern time and humans need
for connection and fulfillment.

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.

Admission is free to the public.

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