What is home? The answer seems obvious. But Telling Our Stories of Home, an international collection of 11 plays by and about women from Lebanon, Haiti, Venezuela, Uganda, Palestine, Brazil, India, UK, and the U.S., complicates the answer. The 'answer' includes stories as far-ranging as: enslaved women trying to create a home, one by any means necessary, and one in the ocean; migrants reassessing media representations after encountering the reality of Disney characters; a family wrestling with the government's refusal to allow the burial of their soldier-son in their hometown; an African ancestral angel visiting her African American descendant to share stories from the continent; and Siddis (Indians of African descent) continuing to struggle for acceptance despite having lived in India for over 600 years. These are voices seldom represented to a larger audience. The plays and performance pieces range from 20 to 90 minute pieces include a mix of monologue, dulologue and ensemble plays. Short yet powerful, they allow 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 include: The House by Arze Khodr (Lebanon), Happy by Kia Corthron (U.S.), The Blue of The Isle by Evelyne 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 (U.S.), Antimemories of an Interrupted Passage by Aldri Anunciacao (Brazil), So Goes We by Jacqueline E. Lawton (U.S.), and Those Who Live Here, Those Who Live There by Geeta P. Siddi and Girija P. Siddi (India)

Book Information
ISBN 9781350259799
Author Kathy A. Perkins
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 156g