The stories of Kurdish female freedom fighters are the focus of a verbatim theatre production — using interview transcripts and found footage — in Toronto.
Deep in the Qandil Mountains of Northern Iraq, two theatre artists from Canada pose questions to scores of female Kurdish freedom fightersThe fighters talk about live performance, storytelling, the struggle to promote an independent Kurdistan. Anna Chatterton and Shahrzad Arshadi, a world away from their respective homes in Hamilton and Montreal, write down what they can as Arshadi quickly translates.
Arshadi, in Canada since Christmas Eve of 1983, is a master of documentary. Primarily a photographer and visual artist, Arshadi prides herself on her ability to tell stories. For previous projects, she’s constructed narratives from interviews, diaries, notebooks and letters, painting a complete portrait of her documentary subjects. For “Children of Fire,” she worked with Chatterton to bring these oral stories of the Kurdish mountains to the stage.
Chatterton and Arshadi went to the mountains and began collecting stories, with Arshadi frequently acting as translator.
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