A GIRL’S WAR BY JOYCE VAN DYKE RUNS 2/14-3/8 AT THICK HOUSE

Broadway World

Feb 12 2009
NY

A Girl’s War: An Armenian-Azeri Love Story, written by Joyce Van Dyke,
and directed by Torange Yeghiazarian featuring Ana Bayat, Adrian Mejia,
Zarif Sadiqi, Simon Vance* and Bella Warda runs February 14 – March 8,
2009 Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 5 pm Previews:
Saturday, February 14 & Sunday, February 15

Opening: Monday, February 16 at the Thick House, 1695 18th St,
San Francisco

Golden Thread Productions is proud to present the West Coast premiere
of Armenian-American playwright Joyce Van Dyke’s award-winning play,
A Girl’s War. This love story of opposite sides was first produced at
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre in 2001. Named one of the "top ten" plays
of the year by the Boston Globe, A Girl’s War won the John Gassner
Playwriting and the Provincetown Theatre Company Playwriting Awards.

During a stormy fashion shoot, Anna Sarkisian, a New York fashion
model, learns that her younger brother has been killed by enemy
soldiers in her native Karabakh in the Caucasus Mountains. In
the Armenian enclave of Karabakh, formerly part of the Soviet
Union, an unresolved civil war still smolders between Armenians
and Azerbaijanis. The war has already killed Anna’s older brother
and driven her mother into the army. Anna decides to return home to
her village for the first time in 15 years. Living with her fiercely
partisan Armenian mother in the bombed ruin of her childhood home, Anna
defiantly refuses to identify herself with the Armenian cause. Tensions
ignite when, Ilyas, a young Azeri deserter shows up, claiming to be
a former neighbor. Anna and Ilyas, powerfully drawn to one another,
become lovers in secret. The competing desires of love and vengeance,
fueled by jealousy, propel the characters toward an explosive climax
with tragic consequences.