FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Johns Hopkins Theater Arts & Studies Program, The International Studies Program and The HOP present Sarajevo Phoenix, a Baltimore premiere of a new work, on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 7:00 p.m., Hopkins students will be performing the reading, followed by a discussion led by Michael Eleftherios, in the John Astin Theatre in the historic Merrick Barn on the university’s Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. class="usercontent"Written by Ellen W. Kaplan, conceived and directed by Peg Denithorne, Sarajevo Phoenix is based on interviews with Bosnian women who survived the Siege of Sarajevo and the 3rd Balkan War in the former Yugoslavia.
In the 1990s, Europe saw the worst carnage since WWII. In summer of 2011, Peg Denithorne and Ellen Kaplan interviewed Bosnian women who lived through the 3rd Balkan war and are now trying to recover from what they endured. Rather than share their horror stories of the war, the women shared their stories of survival, how each became a part of the group, and how the group had given them hope. Denithorne left Bosnia determined to help the women. “I realized it is their story that needs to be told, the story of courageous women rising up from the ashes of Sarajevo,” says Denithorne of her work with this project.
The locus of interviews is Sarajevo Phoenix: a collective of Muslim, Croat and Serb women who lived through the siege of Sarajevo and as their families’ primary bread-winners, make and sell hand-stitchery. In addition to the primary group, they interviewed: women in Srebenica still searching for the missing bones of their relatives; survivors of rape camps; refugees rebuilding their lives; Serb women who opposed the slaughter. Their stories form the core of a play exploring war and its aftermath, as seen through the eyes of women who work together as a means of survival and an act of courage.
Free and Open to the Public. For reservations and information, call 410-516-0618 (M-F 10-5pm) or e-mail JHUT@jhu.edu. The theatre’s Web site is http://krieger.jhu.edu/theatre-arts. Visitor parking on campus is available in the South Garage, 3101 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, Md. 21218.
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