Abraham’s Daughters
FULL LENGTH 2024 Waterworks Finalist, 2019 Henley Rose Finalist and Risk is This Cutting Ball finalist. You can hear it at The Parsnip Ship as a podcast (follow w/script – there are no stage directions) with incidental music by Aya Aziz.
Synopsis: Although Abraham is a Jew from Flushing, and he only has one daughter, Maxine, and her only daughter Racie is a lesbian, Abraham still believes he’ll be the Father of Nations. He moves to Tel Aviv in search of his first love, Haajar. When he discovers Haajar’s daughter has five Palestinian Muslim sons, he goes to Nablus in the midst of the first Intifada to claim them as his own. Abraham’s Daughters is a mythic play about colonialism and identity. 1 man, 4 women, 90 min, unit set
Cast
ABRAHAM A man in his early 70s. Jewish-American from Queens, NY. MAXINE A woman, early 40s. Jewish-American, New Yorker. HUDA A woman, 44, but may seem older than that. Palestinian Muslim. Wears a thob and hijab. RACIE Maxine’s daughter. 18. American Jew from Long Island. Lesbian. AMEL Huda’s daughter. 19. Palestinian Muslim living in a refugee camp in Nablus. Wears a hijab with American-style clothing (jeans, Keds-like sneakers). Amel is pronounced M.L.
Authors
Emma Goldman-Sherman