How to Run a Theater by Jim Volz

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How to Run a Theater by Jim Volz

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How to Run a Theater by Jim Volz

Lili and Goli have argued endlessly about where their mother, Bibijan, should live since the Iranian Revolution. They disagree about her finances too, which remain blocked as long as she insists on waiting for her son--still missing but not presumed dead yet--to return from the Iran-Iraq war. But once they begin to share the old woman, sending her back and forth between Paris and Los Angeles, they start asking themselves where the money might be coming from. Only their Persian half-sister in Iran and the Westernized granddaughter of the family have the courage to face up to the answers, and only when Bibijan finally relinquishes the past can she remember the truth.

A story mirrored in fragmented lives, Us&Them explores the ludicrous and the tragic, the venal and the generous-hearted aspects of Iranian life away from home. It is a story both familial and familiar in its generational tensions and misunderstandings, its push and pull of obligations and expectations. It also highlights how we can become them at any moment, for our true exile is alienation from others. Acclaimed author Bahiyyih Nakhjavani offers a poignant satire about migration, one of the vital issues of our times.

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Volz, Jim: - Jim Volz is a Professor of theatre at California State University, Fullerton, USA. He has produced over 100 professional productions and published more than 100 articles and seven books. He was a longtime theatre critic/columnist for Back Stage magazine and was founding editor of the Shakespeare publication, quarto. He is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and former Managing Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
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ISBN 13 9780823083138
ISBN 10 0823083136
Title How to Run a Theater
Author Jim Volz
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications
Year published 2004-07-01
Number of pages 208
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