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FATS TheArts Collaborative present 07/07/07
FATS TheArts Collaborative present 07/07/07
| Ticket Price: | ₹ 300 |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Language: | English (with some Hindi and Farsi) |
| Duration: | 1hr 40mins (no interval) |
| Age: | 16+ (U/A) |
| Playwright: | Reyhaneh Jabbari |
| Director: | Faezeh Jalali |
| Cast: | Rytasha Rathod, Suruchi Aulakh, Srishti Srivastava, Himani Pant, Mahnaz Damania, Tanvee Ravi, Natasha Singh, Vandana Joshi, Navaneeth Venkateswar, Nikhil Murali, Vikrant Dhote, Roshan Mathew |
| Presented By: | FATS TheArts Collaborative |
Little did 19 year old Rayhaneh Jabbari know what her life would be like for the next 7 years, within prison walls, when she agreed to meet Dr. Sarbandi on the 7th of July 2007. Little did she know that she would pay with death, 7 years later, for defending herself against the man who tried to rape her. With a hanging noose in front of her, Rayhaneh tells her story: her battle to makes sense of life, destiny, humanity, from within the prison walls.
A true story of a woman and her time in jail, before her execution in October 2014.
07/07/07 is a devised piece based on the written accounts of Reyhanneh Jabbari, who spent 7 years in prison in Tehran, Iran. She wrote a 20 part account of those 7 years in 2014, before her hanging. We only had access to the first 10 parts. We gathered missing information from the internet and through correspondence with her mother, to get as close to her truth as possible.
Reyhaneh wanted her story to be told and we have taken permission from her mother Sholeh Pokravan for this production.
07/07/07 was created to give Reyhaneh’s words a voice. A seemingly lonely voice, which however, speaks for many. A voice that questions the law, the law-makers, and the law-keepers; a voice that questions the justice system. A story that could be any one’s to tell, yet is hers.
Using her story and seven women, we explore her journey from the fateful day i.e. the 7th of July 2007 the day of her hanging and her final message to her mother.
The cast of 10 has worked through 6 months of readings, research and creations, to find the play that you see today.