The Veiled Monologues
- Written and Directed by Adelheid Roosen
- October 23 to 27, 2007
- New Theater
- 1156 Chapel Street
“An hour and a half of stories and music... ending in ovations and a sense of happiness.”
— De Groene Amsterdammer
Nazmiye Oral in The Veiled Monologues.
Photo by Jouk Oosterhof.
After acting in a production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Adelheid Roosen approached Muslim women living in the Netherlands to ask them similar questions about their sexuality. The result is a vital, surprising, and poetic portrait of love and relationships under Islam. Each monologue is imbued with deep feeling and delicate detail, allowing us more than a glimpse into each woman’s soul.
Adelheid Roosen collected testimonies of women living in the Netherlands who were born and raised in countries that include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Somalia, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq. The resulting piece of theatre has since been performed in Europe, the Middle East, and before the Dutch Parliament.
Performed in English.
SYMPOSIA: World Performance at the Whitney Co-sponsored by World Performance Project at Yale (WPP) and Whitney Humanities Center
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