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Commuting to New York City for my Playwriting Residency for ANGELA HITLER,\u00a0 I met Julia Miles who founded The Women\u2019s Project.\u00a0 <\/span>She commissioned me to write a play about clitoridectomy.\u00a0 <\/span>I was becoming known for tackling difficult female subjects.\u00a0 This was three-plays-in-one and also about the difficulties of being a theater artist, which does allow for some laughs.
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Leila Said, the Egyptian filmmaker and I worked on the one act which was presented at The Women\u2019s Project but later I incorporated that story into a play within a play format entitled Blue Sky Thinking about a group of actors putting on two one-acts.\u00a0 <\/span>It was difficult to read but I knew Decima Francis could tackle it.\u00a0 <\/span>Decima, a Saint Lucian, had been a director at the Royal National Theatre and trained to read plays.\u00a0 <\/span>With her generous help we premiered the play at the grass-roots level at the Y in Cambridge, Mass.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"8\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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A few years later Decima decided to bring my play Mirror Images out of wraps and produce it at Bilekent University, Ankara, where she had gone to teach drama.\u00a0 <\/span>Translated into Turkish and\u00a0 <\/span>scheduled to open in Ankara it was subsequently banned by the University because of its controversial subject matter.\u00a0 <\/span>Mirror Images is my only play to achieve the dubious distinction of being banned.\u00a0 Set in the Middle-East, the actual country was not mentioned.\u00a0 However, it was
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\u00a0originally inspired by my sister-in-law who suffered through the Iranian revolution, Mirror Images is a poetic play about a group of ordinary middle-class women who are suddenly ordered to wear the shahdoor<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span>It enjoyed a long and extended run at The People\u2019s Theatre, Cambridge, Mass. where it informed many enlightened theatre-goers about that country.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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