The Shaking Earth

The Woodward International Playwriting Prize is a global competition that seeks unproduced plays or unproduced English translations of produced plays, that focus on cultures outside the US.

The first runner-up of the Woodward Internation Playwriting Competition for 2021 is The Shaking Earth by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen. The play takes place during the three days of anti-Sikh massacres that occurred in the wake of the assassination of India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. The play also takes place in the present, as a refugee mother and her politically-minded daughter continue to carry their traumas in a post 9/11 America. The play explores the transmission of trauma across generations, and looks at history with a queer lens, seeing how being a woman and being a gay man have changed from 1984 India to the present, and how sometimes the most frightened among us become the greatest of heroes. The play will be given a public reading as part of the UNH Department of Theatre and Dance's 2021/22 season. (Streaming Performance; Admission FREE)

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Category: Arts | Performing Arts | Theatre Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm