As part of "Exploring the Humanities through Persian Culture" Program in Chicago.
Synopsis: My Name is Inanna
By Ezzat Goushegir
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 dictatorial 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 September 11, 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.
Bio
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Ezzat Goushegir has published four books in Farsi, including two collections of short stories “The Woman, the Room, and Love”- “… And suddenly the leopard cried: WOMAN”, a collection of two plays “Metamorphosis" and "Maryam’s Pregnancy”, and “Migration in the sun”, a book of poetry. Two of her plays “Medea Was Born in Fallujah” and “Now Smile” were anthologized in Witness and Crawdad in 2006.
She began her play writing career in 1976, when her first play “Beginning of Bloom” was produced for Iranian National Television.
Immigrating to the U.S. she wrote both in English and Farsi, where her plays have been produced by a variety of theater companies, and her writing has appeared in publications in Iran, France, Sweden, Germany, and Canada. She has also been a co-director and dramaturge of a reading series at New Federal Theatre in New York. Her new play “My Name is Inanna” was first performed at the 28th Annual Women and Theatre Program conference in Colorado, and at KGB Bar in New York in November 2008.
Currently she teaches at (SNL) DePaul University in Chicago.
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