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Inana

  • Michele Lowe
  • Full Length Play, Drama, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 5M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573699177

On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, one man, an Iraqi museum curator, plots to save the statue of Inana, Goddess of War, from destruction by the invaders.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2010 Francesca Primus Prize
    Finalist! 2010 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award
    Finalist! 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, one man, an Iraqi museum curator, plots to save the statue of Inana, Goddess of War, from destruction by the invaders. 

Fleeing to London with his young bride, he makes a life-altering deal to ensure the statue's preservation. Michele Lowe opens a window of hope and healing with her poignant love story amidst a background of international, and personal, intrigue.

By introducing us to human and complex Iraqi characters, as opposed to road-side bombers, Michele Lowe's play wants to smooth the border that separates our nations like a line of sand in the desert... a quick and engaging tale that allows us to consider our 'enemy' in new and more humane ways. To consider the infuriating plight of Middle Eastern women. To reflect on the unconscionable desecration of a country's sacred heritage, severed into pieces like so many body parts. All while escaping into an unlikely but eventually sweet romance.

Denver Post
Premiere Production: Inana had its world premiere at the Denver Center Theatre Company in January, 2009.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting

  • YASIN SHALID - an Iraqi, chief of the Mosul Museum
    SHALI SHALID - his Iraqi bride
    WAITER - a British man
    ABDEL-HAKIM TALIQ - an Iraqi bookseller
    MENA MOHAMMED - Shali's younger sister
    HAMA SHALID - Yasin's first wife, doubles with Mena
    EMAD AL-BAYIT - Shali's father, an Iraqi artist
    DOMINIC CROFT - a British curator of the British Museum, doubles with Waiter
    MESSENGER - an Iraqi man, doubles with Mohammed

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    On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, one man, an Iraqi museum curator, plots to save the statue of Inana, Goddess of War, from destruction by the invaders. Fleeing to London with his young bride, he makes a life-altering deal to ensure the statue's preservation. Michele Lowe opens a window of hope and healing with her poignant love story amidst a background of international, and personal, intrigue.

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