Silk Road Theatre Project Presents Staged Reading of SEVEN 4/1 & 4/2

Silk Road Theatre Project's Al Kasida Staged Reading Series Presents SEVEN, a documentary play by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deveare-Smith and Susan Yankowitz

Directed by Kimberly Senior and featuring Adrienne Curry, Ilana Faust, Barbara Figgins, Cheryl Hamada, Mildred Langford, Mouzam Makkar, and Amira Sabbagh

WHEN: Friday, April 1 at 8:00pm

WHERE: Silk Road Theatre Project at The Historic Chicago Temple Building, 77 W. Washington St., Pierce Hall, Chicago

COST: Free and Open to the Public.

RESERVATIONS: Reservations strongly recommended. Only online reservations accepted. Email info@srtp.org with your name and number of tickets needed.

The staged readings will be followed by a Q & A session.

For further information, visit www.srtp.org.

ABOUT SEVEN

SEVEN is a groundbreaking documentary play based on interviews with seven women's rights activists from seven countries around the world - Afghanistan, Cambodia, Guatemala, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, and Russia. The interviews were conducted by seven award-winning women playwrights - Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deveare-Smith and Susan Yankowitz.

SEVEN was created in collaboration with Vital Voices Global Partnership. See: www.sevenplay.org

"The play powerfully portrays the transformative way that seven courageous women have changed their societies for the better - from peace-building, to fighting corruption to combating violence against women." --US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

SEVEN opened in New York City at the 92nd Street Y on January 21, 2008. It has been performed all over the world including U.S. performances in Aspen, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC and international performances in Abuja (Nigeria), Brussels, Buenos Aires, Deauville (France), Geneva, The Hague, Istanbul, London, New Delhi, and Stockholm.

In March 2010 SEVEN opened the Women in the World Conference in New York City sponsored by Tina Brown (The Daily Beast) and Vital Voices and introduced by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Silk Road Theatre Project's enhanced staged reading of SEVEN on Friday, April 1, 2011, will mark the first public presentation of the play in Chicago.

SRTP will present a second enhanced staged reading of SEVEN on April 2, 2011 at 8:00pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center as part of The 16th Annual Chicago Asian American Showcase (April 1 -14, 2011), presented by The Foundation for Asian American Independent Media and The Gene Siskel Film Center. For more information visit: www.faaim.org.

 

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