VEILS Equity Principal Auditions - iStar Theatre Lab Auditions

SETTING: Cairo, Egypt. Various set location/playing areas are simply portrayed, including university dorm room, school editing room, hotel room, minaret. TIME: 2010, Fall.

When Intisar, a veiled African American Muslim student, enrolls for a year abroad at the American Egyptian University in Cairo, she thinks she will finally fit in. Intisar is at first excited when, in an effort to bridge the gap between the West and the Middle East, her non-veiled Egyptian roommate Samar enlists her help in creating an Internet blog debating the controversial practice of wearing veils. The Arab Spring intervenes, however, and the Egyptian revolution threatens to overtake the young women and their project. In the violent struggle, Intisar and Samar find themselves on opposite sides of a bitter and dangerous cultural divide. VEILS is a play about faith, human rights, revolution, and above all, the need for cultural understanding.