Farah's One-Woman Show – From New York to India and back…

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Farah Bala, one of the participant of the Zarathushti Field Student program who attended the 7th World Zoroastrian Congress, Houston, TX, has a stellar show in New York in the upcoming weeks. Details are below:

TO THE DEATH OF MY OWN FAMILY, David Meth’s riveting play features Farah Bala in an internationally acclaimed one-woman performance which tells the story of an Afghan-American woman who returns to Afghanistan to help her father escape, only to witness the carnage of her entire family. Upon her return to the U.S., she is interrogated as a suspect, detained, humiliated and forced to justify her journey in order to reclaim her citizenship. Meth’s dramatic nonlinear play is the story of people caught between cultures, a chronicle of the suffering one bears when human rights are violated.

This controversial play has toured the U.S. for over two and one-half years opens at the Abrons Arts Center at the Henry Street Settlement on Thursday, September 27, 2007 for three weeks.

Directed by Peter Ratray, veteran of Broadway, Off-Broadway, TV and film, the play has just returned from a highly successful India Tour with standing-room-only and standing ovations: Chennai, Bangalore, Pondicherry, and Mumbai, where people who had to be turned away nearly started a riot until a second, unplanned performance was agreed upon. The play has just been selected for the Kathmandu International Theatre Festival 2008.

Having originated the role, Farah Bala, who is from India and now living in New York doing Theater, TV and Film, has toured with the play for over two years.

Thursday Sept. 27 to Saturday Sept. 29 @ 7:30 pm
Thursday Oct. 4 to Saturday Oct. 6 @ 7:30 pm
Thursday Oct. 11 to Saturday Oct. 13 @ 7:30 pm

@ THE ABRONS ARTS CENTER, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002 – 212-598-040
See what India said –

“… Farah Bala went beyond herself giving an immensely powerful and poignantly evocative performance”
— THE HINDU (Bangalore)

“Nobody’s spared in a war. A story that needs to be told…”
— BOMBAY TIMES (Times of India)

“A heart-wrenching performance that exposes racial prejudice…”
— THE HINDU (Chennai)

“…Farah Bala gripped us from the word go, with a superb play by David Meth “
— ONLINE REVIEW

“The script was tight and well conceived…come alive with a consummate actor who could perform the multiple roles like a trained Kudiyattam dancer… an astounding performance!”
— THE HINDU