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Monday, July 19, 2004 - 7:00 PM
doors open at 6:45pm

SALAAM 3rd Mondays
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
invites you to our second installation of AWAAZ.

AWAAZ** - New Voices/ New Plays
presents a staged reading of

Taniya Hossain's
MOTHER IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
Directed by Shilarna Stokes.

Synopsis: When Tarak, a Bengali ex-pat, and Karen, an American, decide to get married, they know they're in for some cultural difficulties. But when Tarak buys them a
brownstone and asks permission to move his mother into the basement apartment, Karen knows she's getting more than she bargained for. Hoping that Tarak's mother is
nothing like her own mother, Blanch- a brash, independent woman on her fourth marriage - Karen agrees but nothing prepares her for the arrival of Meena, Tarak's mother.
Instead of taking over the brownstone, Meena manages to make her apartment the center of the house. Things go from bad to worse when Karen's mother, Blanch, is
suddenly broke and homeless. Blanch moves in with Meena turning them into the odd couple from hell. Blanch's modern woman ways conflict with Meena's traditional
Bengali household. But the mothers stay together finding a new respect for each other. Now they have to teach their children the lesson of compromise before the
engagement is called off.

Celebrate the summertime in NYC by joining SALAAM Theatre's AWAAZ Play Reading Series.  As always, we welcome members of the press and media to list, review, interview or cover the event.  There will be a Q&A with the playwright TANIYA HOSSAIN following the staged reading.  Thanking you in advance for your support and encouragement!

Q&A and complimentary sangria and libations for your pleasure.

SALAAM Theatre
16 West 32nd Street - 10th floor
Between Fifth Avenue and Broadway
New York, NY 10001

Admission by donation: (nobody is turned away due to lack of funds)
$5 minimum, $10 suggested, $15 appreciated

Reservations RECOMMENDED:
Phone: 212.330.8097
Email: rsvp@SALAAMtheatre.org

**AWAAZ means VOICE.
The goal of AWAAZ, other than to expose our large and diverse SALAAM audience to new and emerging writing, is to develop voices that will go on to be valuable
storytellers about South Asian issues through entertaining theatricality and thereby add to the already diverse texture of the New York theatrical landscape.  AWAAZ is not only to help emerging playwrights through staged readings and development workshops but also develop some of these plays with an eye to full
productions for SALAAM Theatre's 2005 Season.  Please join us for each installment of our AWAAZ Play Reading Series.  You never know what special talents you'll meet so just mark your calendars and be part of this growing movement of artists and activists.  For an energizing and engaging event, make it SALAAM time.

August 16, 2004 - Next installment of AWAAZ takes place at SALAAM 3rd Mondays on the NEW MOON day.  The new moon is the phase of the moon when the moon is not visible from Earth, because the side of the moon that is facing us is not being lit by the sun.

SALAAM Theatre - AWAAZ Team:
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
Priyanka Mathew, Play Development Coordinator
Ragini Jain, Artistic Intern