A Citizens Theatre production
CREATIVE TEAM
CAST Cindy Awor Bushra
Maryam Hamidi Writer Joanna Bowman Director
Zahra Browne Shideh
Jen McGinley Designer Simon Hayes Lighting Designer Nik Paget-Tomlinson Composer/Sound Designer Vicki Manderson Movement Director
Leah Byrne Gina
Eleanor Felton Assistant Director
Writer’s note – Maryam Hamidi
Layla Kirk Roxy
Hannah Visocchi Joanne
Moonset is my attempt to explore that bone-cracking transition into womanhood and the shifting ground of relationships between mothers and daughters and teachers and friends at that precipice. I wanted to capture the messiness, rage, hope and hunger we feel at that age as well as the ache we have as older women looking back.
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Roxy, Bushra, Joanne and Gina are all living complex, challenging lives and I think that says something of us as school-age young adults - our inner worlds and outer selves are in conflict and you never quite know what the kid at the desk next to you is going through. I hope Moonset reminds us as women, young and not so young anymore, to feel all that we’re feeling and trust the rage we’re so often taught to minimise.
Director’s note – Joanna Bowman It is rare to have the opportunity to make a play as gloriously theatrical, thrillingly challenging, and brilliantly funny as Moonset. The play demands to be staged: Maryam’s words and characters leap off the page and onto the stage, all the time pushing at the boundaries of what theatre can do, and who is allowed to occupy our mainstages. To have the chance to put these young women and their lives onstage, taking their ambitions and stories seriously, has been a joy. It is a privilege to share their stories with you.