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Monday, May 2
Segal Theatre
6:00pm

FREE + Open to public. First come, first served.

Ticha-Ticha
Written by Hakim Bah (Guinea) & translated by Heather Denyer
Directed by Ethan McSweeney
Discussion moderated by Brooke Christensen

Ticha-Ticha awaits the return of Michael, the love of her life, who is, however, drawn to her daughter, Penda. This intense and poetic play deals with love, lust, female genital mutilation, and murder.

Photo Courtesy of Alexandre Gouzou

Born in Mamou, Guinea in 1987, Hakim Bah is both a playwright and a director. His plays have been staged in Africa, Belgium, and France. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Radio France International’s prestigious prize for best play. His plays have been published by Lansman and in Théâtre Ouvert’s Tapuscript collection. Hakim is also the artistic director of the “Universe of Words” festival in Guinea and the Paupières Mobiles theatre company in France.

Ethan McSweeny is a Brooklyn-based director whose interpretations of new plays, musicals, operas, and revivals has taken him all over the world — most recently to Dublin, Ireland with Florian Zeller’s The Father (Gate Theatre) and to his hometown of Washington, DC with a revival of his 2014 production of The Tempest (Shakespeare Theatre Company) and to Macau, China where his production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream opened the 2016 Macau Arts Festival.  Ethan has premiered works by John Logan (Never the Sinner), Kate Fodor (100 Saints You Should Know, Rx, Fifty Ways), Jason Grote (1001), Lee Blessing (A Body of Water), Regina Taylor (The Trinity River Plays), Noah Haidle (Mr. Marmalade) Rupert Holmes (A Time to Kill), Mark Victor Olsen (Cornelia), Steven Drukman (In This Corner), Anthony Clarvoe (Ctrl+Alt+Delete), and Thomas Bradshaw (Fulfillment). From 2004-2011, he was the co-artistic director of the Chautauqua Theatre Company.

Brooke Christensen is a Ph.D. candidate of Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Centre, CUNY. Her primary research interest is theatre and performance theory considering the intersection of art objects and actors bodies working as co-performers on stage and in visual culture. She was one of the co-founders of the Chicago artist collective Lucid Street Theatre, and she worked with the Rude Mechanical Theatre Company, a commedia dell’arte troupe in Eastbourne, England. She is honored to once again be serving as the PEN World Voices International Play Festival producer.

Learn more about The PEN World Voices: International Play Festival.