Abraham’s Daughters did not enter this world easily. The idea that was born on a late-night campus bus ride home from a shift working at Duke University’s library navigated through not one, but two departments that had never seen a joint honors project in Religion and Theater Studies. It convinced five separate professors to support and advise the project despite recommendations to the contrary. But by the time the play was completed and given a staged reading in 2008, it had Religion professors thinking about theater and it had Theater professors thinking about religion. Along the way, it won the 2008 Reynolds Price scriptwriting award.
The journey didn’t end there. Abraham’s Daughters traveled across an ocean and three continents to a dorm room in Doha, Qatar, where details and experiences about Islam and inter-religious dialogue further colored the play. It made its way to Be’er Sheva, Israel, where religion, culture and identity were thrown into even starker contrasts. And after traveling the world, it’s finally time for its New York debut.
This is Abraham’s Daughters, and this is about you, or your sister, or your daughter, or your niece, or your best friend, and what they might have done in their freshman year of college. This is the story of three young women leaving home, and trying to find a new one. This is about the unavoidable and unexpected ways that religion affects our decision-making. This is about life.
The journey didn’t end there. Abraham’s Daughters traveled across an ocean and three continents to a dorm room in Doha, Qatar, where details and experiences about Islam and inter-religious dialogue further colored the play. It made its way to Be’er Sheva, Israel, where religion, culture and identity were thrown into even starker contrasts. And after traveling the world, it’s finally time for its New York debut.
This is Abraham’s Daughters, and this is about you, or your sister, or your daughter, or your niece, or your best friend, and what they might have done in their freshman year of college. This is the story of three young women leaving home, and trying to find a new one. This is about the unavoidable and unexpected ways that religion affects our decision-making. This is about life.
© 2010 Danish Duck Productions, LLC
