In the deep of night with the wind moaning, she hid her two sons under her burqa and brought medical care to the women of remote villages in Afghanistan. On the grey, rain drenched streets of North Belfast she works to bring dignity and security to women who have never heard of The Declaration of Human Rights. In far flung villages dotted among the waving rice fields of Cambodia, she trumpets a message of democracy. Proud daughter of a slain president and a gifted mother, she honors their memory daily in her work to bring rebirth to Nigeria. In a country where impunity is queen, she risks her life to better the lives of others in Guatemala. In the teeming urban canyons of Moscow, she waits by the phone, praying that she can save the next woman who calls. In a small village in Pakistan she defies tradition, chooses life over death, opening a school that brings the promise of a better future.
Reynessa Sanchez as Hafsat Abiola, Nigeria
Maria Forte as Muhktar Mai, Pakistan
Kate Hawkes as Marina Pisklakova-Parker, Russia
Pat Anderson as Annabella de Leio, Guatemala
Rexanne Bell as Inez McCormack, Northern Ireland
Nancy Bonini as Farida Azizi, Afghanistan
Peggy Martinez as Mu Sochua, Cambodia
Maria Forte as Muhktar Mai, Pakistan
Kate Hawkes as Marina Pisklakova-Parker, Russia
Pat Anderson as Annabella de Leio, Guatemala
Rexanne Bell as Inez McCormack, Northern Ireland
Nancy Bonini as Farida Azizi, Afghanistan
Peggy Martinez as Mu Sochua, Cambodia
Scattered around the globe these seven women have become sisters recognizing in one another a fire that burns continuously, that impels them to strive for change against overwhelming odds. Their seven stories, with the help of seven women American playwrights, is told in the play SEVEN. Don't miss this moving tribute to the human spirit.
And another woman's story. She was seven, a white child of Africa, a blithe spirit that danced, and skipped and jumped with only the joy that arises out of a life of love and song and dance and wonder. But under all the light was a darkness that crept in, bringing fear, brutality and finally death. And yet in the end the ties of love that bind the child, Lizzy, and her black nanny, Salamina, prove too strong for the cruel fingers of apartheid.
Belinda Torrey as Lizzy in The Syringa Tree
Nelson Mandela said, “No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” His words find substance in the play---The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gein.
I hope you will attend both these plays as well as the New Play Readings and the talk by Paula Cizmar one of the playwrights of SEVEN. Also on April 8th, following the performance of The Syringa Tree, Terri New will perform from her moving work, Voices of the Velvet Revolution. This is the first festival of The Artist's Path, Supporting Artists Who Shape Our World.
Gail Mangham, Artistic Director, Program Details at The Artist's Path
SEVEN at Granite Performing Arts Center 218 N. Granite St Prescott AZ
Saturdays April 9 and 16 at 7 PM, Sunday, April 10, 2 PM Adult $12 Senior/Students $10
Buy at Door or Call Gail 928 771 2554
The Syringa Tree Fridays April 8 & 15, 7 PM Sat. April 9 2 PM
Tickets at Elks Opera House Prescott, AZ Box Office Tues. - Fri. 10 to 2 928 777 1367
The Creation of SEVEN —Prescott College With Playwright Paula Cizmar, Saturday, April 16, 2 PM Free Paula Cizmar, award winning playwright from California, will explore the process of the writing of the play SEVEN presented at Prescott College in April 2011. Ms Cizmar was one of seven playwrights who collaborated on the writing of SEVEN
New Play Readings at Prescott College
April 12, 13, 14 7 PM Free! Help Us Choose the Best Plays.
Play Readings and Lecture will be at , Granite Performing Arts Center
218 N. Granite St., Prescott.
Festival was a great success. Thanks to everyone...GM
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