Pantea Productions, presents SILKENVEILS, a theatrical exploration of women and family in the Middle East, conceived by Leila Ghaznavi with original music by Hamed Nikpay and Houman Pourmedhi. SILKENVEILS will be performed at the Hollywood, Edinburgh and Chicago Fringe Festivals this summer. For dates and venue information please visit www.silkenveils.net.
SILKENVEILS combines Rumi poetry, marionettes, shadow images and table top puppetry with animation to examine the impact of political turmoil on society and family. As a performer, playwright Leila Ghaznavi, leads an ensemble of four through this turbulent, sometimes humorous, tale of the strength and weaknesses of love in a political revolutionary landscape. In this forty five minute piece, Darya, an Iranian-born American citizen, struggles with love in the United S...
