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Woman. Life. Freedom

Multiple Venues Show Dates: 4 Aug 2023-12 Aug 2023

WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM. discusses the complex issue of whether women can have full agency in a world that is inherently patriarchal. Can the decision to wear the hijab ever be an empowering decision to be made by a woman to show her faithfulness to God? Or is this something that will always be tied to the oppression of women? The play shows the internal debate of Meera while also exploring the external debates and pressures she feels in her workplace and relationship with her family. The current protests in Iran make the discussion of feminism and the hijab not only topical but vital. But this is a story which has been important for a long time. In the 1970s Iranian Revolution, women put on the hijab as an act of rebellion, but that symbol of freedom was then imposed upon them and now they’re ripping it off. Meera has a similar story of initially choosing to wear the hijab as a symbol of her religion and identity and as a response to rising Islamophobia. But now, like the women in Iran, she is choosing to take it off.

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