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                            - Diane von Furstenberg
 
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Seven is a groundbreaking work of documentary theater that captures the remarkable lives of a diverse and courageous group of women leaders from around the world.




A collaboration by seven award-winning female playwrights, the play is based on personal interviews with seven women in the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network who have triumphed over enormous obstacles to bring about major changes in their home countries of Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala, and Cambodia.
“The lives of these women provide a portal through which audiences will be able to experience a diversity of cultures while bearing witness to the varied way in which individual women have overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles to justice and freedom.” —Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues


See reviews from Istanbul May performance:

Upcoming News & Performances:
 
Abroad: Hedda Sjogren with the Swedish Institute and the Swedish Embassy will be in AFGHANISTAN performing
SEVEN  translated to Dari.  See the following for more:
New Delhi, INDIA, SEVEN at a conference, February 23, 2013
SWEDEN: SEVEN readings at highschools of Eskilstuna in March and May.  A reading at the Gothenburg Swedish Church in March and in Stockholm a reading with the well-known Iraqi female chorus "Birds of Tigris"  in April, 2013
BALKANS:  There will be 10 readings of SEVEN in 6 countries in the Fall of 2013. The tour is funded by the Swedish Institute in collaboration with local organizations, using the Serbian translation and adding Albanian and Macedonian translations.
MOROCCO:  In Rabat, there will be a reading of SEVEN in Arabic. It will be much like the Amman event (see video below)
 
SEVEN in Amman, Jordan in October, 2012
See video in Jordan  http://vimeo.com/44450452
SEVEN  in Tokyo, Japan  at the Woody Theatre, Nakameguro, Tokyo  November 2 & 3, 2012  By Theatre Classics.  For tickets  tcrep2007@yahoo.co.jp
For more information about Project SEVEN Japan contact  riho.mitachi@nifty.com   
 
International Women's League for Peace  and Freedom  performs SEVEN on May 21, in Stockholm. Disarmament Day in Sweden

See:  http://www.sevenwomen.se/en/?p=1068&preview=true

Readings of SEVEN in Serbian October 21 and October 25, 2011 in the cities of Kragujevac and Belgrade by local institutions in collaboration with the Swedish Institute

SEVEN has been translated into Russian in preparation for a  performance at the Swedish Institute in St. Petersburg to start a Conference on gender-based violence. Marina Pisklakova-Parker will participate.

SEVEN is performed at the Istanbul Theatre Biennial of 2012 on May 16  (in Turkish)
Riksteatern has invited the playwrights of SEVEN
to speak on a panel about the play post performance at the Kenter Theatre, Istanbul.

(Thus far SEVEN has been translated into French, Swedish, Spanish, Serbian, Russian, Turkish, Finnish, Arabic  & Japanese)

IN THE USA:
SEVEN performed by Stray Kats Theatre Company at Edmonton Town Hall in Newtown, Connecticut on April 28, 2013 at 2 P.M.  The performance introduced by First Selectman Pat Llodra. The assembled cast of women consists of actresses, a writer, a  doctor, an attorney and other prominent women. www.StrayKatsTheatreCompany.org
Butler  Theatre in collaboration with Phoenix theatre  performs SEVEN in Indianapolis, Indiana in September, 2012 and the monologues of SEVEN (JOURNEYS) in the spring of 2013 as part of a theatre festival.
SEVEN  2/23/2012- 3/10/2012  produced by Pygmalion Productions, at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center ,Salt Lake City, Utah.
http://pygmalionproductions.org/
 
 
SEVEN : Art at Work for Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Southern California , March 21, 2012, 7:00 pm at the Bovard Auditorium, University Park Campus, admission free.  Bovard seats 1300 people and SEVEN will be performed by professional  actors, directed by Lora Zane, and the performance will be followed by a discussion moderated by faculty from Political Science, Gender Studies, Sociology and Chicano Studies Departments. Many events surround this performance.
The website for further information is: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/893774

SEVEN  performance by Hostos Repertory Theatre Company at Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY on March 21, 2012