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SOFT REVOLUTION
Soft Revolution: Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah by Alana Valentine
Sweet 16: Groovy Young Things
Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 3:00PM

The Venus Theatre Play Shack
21 C Street
Laurel, MD 20707
21 miles North of Washington, DC. 21 miles South of Baltimore, MD
Car. Marc Train for weekday commuters. Metrobus.

Box office open 1/2 hour before showtime

At the heart of Soft Revolution: Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah is the story of a young Australian­born Muslim woman and an intergenerational clash with her own Aunt. Based on interviews with Afghani/ Australian Muslim women and produced with the support of a large number of Muslim women from a diversity of Muslim cultures in Australia, this play will compel audiences with its portrait of women who are articulate, highly educated and deeply spiritual. University student Shafana turns to the religion of her heritage for answers after a terrorist attack, resulting in a deep experience of faith and a controversial decision to wear the hijab.​B​ut for her Aunt Sarrinah, also a devout Muslim but old enough to regret the changes in her Afghan homeland, the hijab represents both a world from which she has escaped and her fears about the new world she has embraced. Above all, this play is a startling meditation on the clash between individual freedom and cultural context, experienced through two tender and fiercely drawn female characters.