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Play by Catherine Filloux Published
Silence of God and Other Plays,
an anthology of 5 new plays by Catherine Filloux has just been published
by Seagull Books, London Limited. There are introductions to the 5 plays
by Elizabeth Becker, reporter for The New York Times and Washington
Post; David Scheffer, U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues;
Chivy Sok, human rights educator/researcher; Turkish journalist Serap
Erincin; and Carol Martin, series editor for “In Performance”.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=2447105
Chivy Sok writes about the
anthology:
“We live in a time where urgent actions are required to deal with
challenging human suffering -- mass atrocities in Africa, unspeakable
violence inflicted on women in every corner of the world, enslaved children,
warfare, and other violent conflicts. Yet, we are also numbed by the
severity of these atrocities. Filloux has never shied away from focusing
on these complex issues and has used her writings to address them head
on. Through her work, she challenges the audience to become involved.”
Chivy Sok, an educator, trainer
and researcher on human rights and child labor, is the former Program
Director of Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights
and former Deputy Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human
Rights (UICHR). Chivy and her family members are survivors of the Khmer
Rouge Killing Fields. She has worked on a number of human rights projects
with different organizations during the last 15 years and is deeply
committed to advancing public education about genocide.
And please join us for these
Book Launch Events:
September 14th at 6PM at
The Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law, Yeshiva University
A Panel Discussion on Genocide and Human Rights for the Book Launch
of “Silence of God and Other Plays”
Catherine Filloux, Elizabeth Becker and David Scheffer will be joined
on the panel by Richard H. Weisberg, Walter Floersheimer Professor of
Constitutional Law at Cardozo School of Law. Moderated by Professor
Sheri P. Rosenberg, Director, Human Rights and Genocide Clinic at Cardozo
Law School.
Reception and Book Signing
to follow at 8PM.
The Jacob Burns Moot Court Room 55 Fifth Avenue, First Floor (at 12th
Street) New York City Reservations: 212-790-0455
Email: cardozophhr@gmail.com
Catherine Filloux has been
writing plays about genocide, human rights, and social justice for the
past twenty years. Her plays and music theater pieces have been produced
in the U.S. and around the world.
Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning New York Times and Washington Post
reporter. Becker also served as a senior foreign editor of NPR. She
is the author of When the War was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.
David Scheffer is the Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw/Robert B. Helman
Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Human
Rights at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.
He was the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues from 1997
to 2001.
Richard H. Weisberg is the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional
Law at Cardozo School of Law and the Founding Director of the Program
in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies. He has pioneered the worldwide
"Law and Literature" movement and is the author of The Failure
of the Word, When Lawyers Write, Poethics: And Other Strategies of Law
and Literature and Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France.
Sheri P. Rosenberg is the Director of the Program in Holocaust and Human
Rights Studies. She was formerly an international lawyer seconded by
the US Department of State to the Human Rights Chamber in Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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September 26th at 7PM at
the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San
Diego, 5998 Alcala Park in San Diego, California.
Book Signing and Reception to Follow
Bearing Exquisite Witness
Arts Festival
http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/programs/women_peace_makers/conferences/bew.php
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SEAGULL BOOKS • London Limited • Theatre and Performance
Silence of God
and Other Plays
by Catherine Filloux
“Lemkin’s House
is a call to action…a compelling, well-acted play.”
--The New York Times
A collection of five new
plays from award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux, will be released
in August with introductions by Elizabeth Becker, reporter for The New
York Times and Washington Post; David Scheffer, U.S. Ambassador at Large
for War Crimes Issues; Chivy Sok, human rights educator/ researcher;
Turkish journalist Serap Erincin; and Carol Martin, series editor for
“In Performance”, published by Seagull Books.
In Catherine Filloux’s
plays, themes of honor killing, the Khmer Rouge genocide, human responsibility
in the face of lawlessness, and women's rights are treated with a lyricism
that is at once anguished, brutal and poetic. “For a while, these
crimes were the best-kept secrets, but they’re not even secrets,”
explains Filloux. “They happen all the time and nobody cares.
And that’s the problem on some level with doing this kind of theater.
There’s a wall that’s been built up against these things
and to write theater about them is part of the challenge.”
This new release compiles
in one volume five new important plays that can be produced professionally
and in university environments, and used as teaching tools for human
rights and theater educators alike. The plays are:
• Lemkin's House, 2W/3M,
winner of the PeaceWriting Award, is a surreal portrait of Raphael Lemkin,
the man who coined the word ‘genocide’. Highly recommended
by The New York Times.
• In The Beauty Inside,
3W/2M, Ms. Filloux places the audience in the midst of a culture war
after an attempted honor killing. The Village Voice called it “a
drama whose lyrical dialogue evokes the surprising ambivalence of this
wrenching battle.”
• A Cambodian refugee
woman suffers from psychosomatic blindness in Eyes of the Heart, 4W/2M.
"Thida is the heroine of Catherine Filloux's 'Eyes of the Heart,'
a beautifully done one-act drama about the place where horror and grief
meet,” says The New York Times.
• America's complicity
through the eyes of a journalist, at the end of the Pol Pot leadership
is the subject of Silence of God, 1W/3M. The Washington Times calls
it “A brave play, with a compelling story to tell.”
• Mary and Myra, 2W,
is about one woman (Mary Todd Lincoln) damned by her reputation, saved
by another (Myra Bradwell) who was damned into obscurity. The Shepherdstown
Chronicle wrote, "Mary and Myra takes the audience hostage…a
kind of séance, a spellbinding recreation of lives that come
toward us like torches lighting the future."
About the Author:
Catherine Filloux has been writing plays about genocide, human rights,
and social justice for the past twenty years. Her plays and music theater
pieces have been produced in the U.S. and around the world. Ms. Filloux’s
awards include the Roger L. Stevens Award (Kennedy Center), the Eric
Kocher Playwrights Award (O'Neill) and the Callaway Award (New Dramatists).
She has served extensively as a speaker for human rights and theater
organizations. www.catherinefilloux.com
• Series: In Performance
• 160 X 240 mm
328 pp • 10 b/w production photos • ISBN 9781906497095 •
Paperback $24.95
