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EZZAT GOUSHEGIR (1952 - ) |
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Nationality: Iranian/USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Ezzat Goushegir, is a playwright, author and film critic. She has published four books in Farsi and two plays in English. Her plays have been produced by a variety of theater companies. She is the member of "The Dramatists Guild of America" and "The Association of Writers and Writing Program". Currently she teaches at (SNL)DePaul University in Chicago.
Plays by Ezzat Goushegir
Another Phaedra In The Desert | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged readings in Iowa City | 1991 | ||||
Company: | La Mama La Galleria | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78357 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Staged readings in Iowa City (1991), La Mama La Galleria in New York City (1993), Guild Complex in Chicago (1997), WTP Conference in Los Angeles (2010) | |||||
Synopsis: | A modern adaptation of Iranian epic story of Sudabeh and Siavash, similar to the story of Pahaedra. Sudabeh is today's Iranian woman who confronts the gender inequality, and questions the complication of love, passion, liberation and boundaries. | |||||
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Ask The Mirror | ||
| 1st Produced: | Performance in Chicago | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116663 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Three Iranian women tell their stories in 3 different historical periods. | |||||
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Behind the Curtains | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York City | 1992 | ||||
Company: | New Perspectives Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78356 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Has productions and readings. | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on Tahireh-Qurrat-ul-ayn's life, the 19th century Iranian poet and theologist, whose radical philosophical belief, the claims of emancipation and power of women, caused her death. | |||||
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Bride of Acacias, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chopin Theatre- Chicago | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Chopin Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78359 | |||
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Genre: | One woman show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Readings at Northeaster University in Chicago- 1997 and at Lenz gallery at 2005 | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on life of prominent Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, whose poetry made a significant awakening impact on men and women in Iran. At the wake of Forugh's rebellious act of adultery, simultaneously an American coup by CIA agents overthrows the democratically elected government. Forugh in search of the nature of love and freedom begins a long journey through impossibilities. | |||||
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Doll Behind The Curtain, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Performance in Chicago | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116664 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | In Persian language. | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of Sadegh Hedayat's short story of the same title. This play emphasizes a young man's fascination for a silent statue behind a boutique's window in Paris. Infatuated by her mysterious beauty, he pays all his saving to own this soulless mannequin. The play explores the complexity of love, sexuality and intimacy from the perspective of an eccentric man, torn in between tradition and modernity. | |||||
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In the Mist | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York City | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Studio Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78361 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Another production was in Iowa City | |||||
Synopsis: | A 20 minutes play, contains of 3 episodes, deals with an immigrant woman who struggles in an alienated society with loneliness and alienation. She journeys through her past in search of a future. | |||||
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Lion in My Eyes, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78363 | |||
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Genre: | 20 Minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | One woman show, a reading in Iowa City | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman who was imprisoned by a lion in her girlhood tells her story in a surrealistic way. | |||||
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Living With A Tiger Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78365 | |||
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Synopsis: | In a tenuous situation under certain political circumstances, a middle class intellectual marries her comrade from a working class background for the sake of her idealistic ideology. He turns out to be a tiger man. | |||||
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Mad As The Blood Sound, or, Gang Lu Bought Two Guns | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78358 | |||
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Genre: | One man show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Readings in New York City women's projects-1993, Room 41 and Victory gardens in 2006 in Chicago. | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the shooting event at the University of Iowa in November 1st 1991. Lu Gang the Chinese student, who killed 6 university members, tells his truth about the cause of his mass murder. The play is a discovery through his internal life, revealing his political view on immigration, alienation, racism and isolation. | |||||
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Maryam's Pregnancy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Iowa City | 1990 | ||||
Company: | University of Iowa | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78354 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Maryam's Pregnancy has Had several productions and readings. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, Maryam a 17 year-old girl who identifies herself with Rapunzel, gets pregnant out of wedlock. To protect her from brutal punishment in a male-dominated society, her mother locks her up in a dark cellar. After 7 months of loneliness, fear and hunger, she gives birth and then murders her baby. | |||||
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Medea Was Born in Fallujah | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lincoln Square Arts Center in Chicago | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Witness, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78362 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Readings at the University of Maryland Writer's House, and Women and Theatre Conference in New Orleans in 2007 | |||||
Synopsis: | A 20 Minutes play about an Iraqi woman living in exile. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Metamorphosis | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Iowa, Iowa City | 1989 | ||||
Company: | University of Iowa | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78355 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Metamorphosis had several readings. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in Paris in 1980s, is about a distressed woman artist who crosses the border, takes refuge in France after the execution of her husband by a totalitarian regime. Melancholic and in despair, she meets a French journalist who had been reporting during the height of political events in her country. In the intensity of sharing her past, love grows between them, culminating in an explosion of dazzling creativity. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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My Name is Inanna | ||
| 1st Produced: | Women and Theatre Confrence at El Centro Su Teatro in Denver- Colorado | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Women and Theartre Program, El Centro Su Teatro | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89478 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | 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 | |||||
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Parallel Mirrors | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78360 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Reading in Iowa City 1990 | |||||
Synopsis: | A Kurdish woman, who lost her lover in a bombing attack during Iran-Iraq war, travels around the world in search of love and the meaning of life. After years of exploration and experiences, an old man reveals his true love. But it is only an illusion. | |||||
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Rapunzel's Gone Bald | ||
| 1st Produced: | ATHE Conference in Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116666 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Romeo and Juliet in the Dark Alleys of Tehran and Labyrinthine Corridors of Columbine High School | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78364 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Staged reading in Chicago in 2000 | |||||
Synopsis: | A bilingual play, in Persian and English. A political view on Iranian and American teenage restlessness | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roses Roses for Sohrab | ||
| 1st Produced: | 6th theatre Festival(Koln- Germany) | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116665 | |||
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Notes: | The play is written in Persian language.. Cultural Seminar (Chicago) 2005, Film Society (Los Angeles) 2010 | |||||
Synopsis: | A full length play on the last moments of Sohrab Shalid Saless' life, the Prominent Iranian filmmaker in Chicago | |||||
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Two Iranian Children | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mess Hall (Chicago), Film Society (Los Angeles) | 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116662 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two Iranian twin sisters reunite after twenty two years of separation caused by the Iranian regime. One remains in Iran, the other one takes refuge in France, where her life turns in completely opposite direction. | |||||
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You're Not a Man! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Copernicus Cultural and Civic Center, Chicago | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96078 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Ahmad an Afghan interpreter and two American interrogators working for a military base in Afghanistan, speak their truth about an innocent young farmer and taxi driver who was shackled and brutally tortured for four days and died at Bagram prison, a detention center 40 miles north of Kabul. | |||||
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