What is home? The answer seems obvious. But Telling Our Stories of
Home, an international collection of eleven plays by and about
women from Lebanon, Haiti, Venezuela, Uganda, Palestine, Brazil,
India, UK, and the US, 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; siblings
wrestling with their differing devotion to home after their
mother's death; a family wrestling with 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
difficulty of creating home elsewhere, 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 and include a mix of monologue,
duologue, 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
(US), The Blue of the Island 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 (US),
Antimemories of an Interrupted Trip by Aldri Anunciacao (Brazil),
So Goes We by Jacqueline E. Lawton (US), and Those Who Live Here,
Those Who Live There by Geeta P. Siddi and Girija P. Siddi (India)
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