DEPORTED / a dream play

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DEPORTED / a dream play

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre presents Joyce Van Dyke’s Deported / a dream play in association with Suffolk University, opening March 8, 2012, at the newly-renovated Modern Theatre at Suffolk University. The production features Armenian dance choreographed by Apo Ashjian of Sayat Nova Dance Company. Deported will be directed by Judy Braha with the following cast: Bobbie [...]
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DEPORTED / a dream play

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre presents Joyce Van Dyke’s Deported / a dream play in association with Suffolk University, opening March 8, 2012, at the newly-renovated Modern Theatre at Suffolk University. The production features Armenian dance choreographed by Apo Ashjian of Sayat Nova Dance Company. Deported will be directed by Judy Braha with the following cast: Bobbie Steinbach, Jeanine [...]
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Producer

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, the “Home of New Plays in Boston,” is a subsidiary of Boston University and as such oversees the MFA Program in Playwriting in the Graduate School of the College of Arts and Sciences. Now in its 30th year, BPT is an award-winning professional theatre company, the founder of both the Elliot Norton [...]

03a.Varter, Mr. Nazarian, and their growing family (with her parents and brother)

Artistic Team

The director, the playwright, and most of the actors have been working together for the past four years to develop Deported / a dream play. Joining together now with the designers, choreographer, and dancers, we look forward to realizing our long-held dream of this production. CAST BOBBIE STEINBACH has performed at many theatre companies including Actors’ Shakespeare Project, [...]

Development of The Play

Deported / a dream play is in many ways an untold story. Almost one hundred years after the fact, the Turkish government still denies the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and the “deportation” of Armenian women and children on a death march through the desert. The descendants of Armenian survivors in the U.S. and [...]

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The Play

Posted by Admin on November 27, 2011

Deported is a dream play. The story of two women friends, it fuses the everyday and the surreal. Dreams evoke the repercussions of a long-ago genocide, down through more than a century – from 1915 to 2015 and beyond. “Memories and dreams interweave in this tale of enduring friendship incorporating music and dance …Deported celebrates the [...]

The Playwright

Posted by Admin on November 27, 2011

Joyce Van Dyke’s plays have received numerous productions and awards. Deported / a dream play, premiering March 8, 2012, is the recipient of a grant from the Boston University Center for the Humanities and a Finalist for the 2011 O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference. As a descendant of Armenian genocide survivors, the playwright developed this play [...]

The History

Posted by Admin on November 27, 2011

Deported / a dream play is inspired by the true stories of its two main characters – the playwright’s grandmother, Elmas Sarajian Boyajian, and her best friend, Varter Nazarian Deranian (the mother of Dr. H. Martin Deranian). The history in brief: during the two decades before World War I, the Ottoman government engaged in repeated massacres [...]