Mothers & daughters

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MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS

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  • MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS

  • IntroductionDear teacher!

    MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS is a theatre project in Jordan, which

    aim is to articulate the hopes and dreams of women in Jordan.

    Through theatre, personal storytelling, music and dance, 12 women

    tell their own stories about their marriage, their parents and their

    children about their past and their future, and how they would

    shape it if it was up to them.

    The project and its partnersThe project is a collaboration between Jordanian Womens Union,

    KVINFO and C:NTACT. C:NTACT is a Danish social foundation,

    who works both nationally and internationally. C:NTACT has made

    several theatre projects in Jordan since 2009 with different themes

    and aims. Common for all of C:NTACTs projects is that they use

    the aesthetics of theatre to give voice to different social groups.

    Jordanian Womens Union (JWU) is an organization whose aim is

    to unify Jordanian womens effort to protect their rights. JWU has

    been the projects local partner in Jordan, and has contributed with

    knowledge, production team, crew and participants for the project.

    Read more at http://www.jwu.itgo.com/bg.htm

    KVINFO is the Danish Centre for Gender, Equality and Ethnicity.

    The key role of KVINFO is to initiate research and disseminate

    information and findings, and to contribute to the development

    of an equal society. Through its work, KVINFO ensures the

    documentation and communication of knowledge about gender,

    equality and ethnicity both in Denmark and around the world.

    KVINFO has worked in the Middle East since 2006, where they

    established their Middle East Department. KVINFO has contributed

    to MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS with project funding.

    Read more at http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/715/

    About this materialThe purpose of this educational material is to maintain the themes

    of the performance through discussions. The material consists of a

    selection of the scenes from the show, and asks the students to relate

    the issues to their own lives and their own future. The material also

    opens a debate of what theatre and personal storytelling is capable

    of. Lastly, it introduces the work of Jordanian Womens Union.

    The date for the wedding was decided without

    anyone asking my opinion.Enas

    Production team:

    Jordanian teamSTAGE DIRECTOR

    AND DRAMATURGE: Sawsan Nizar Dissi

    MUSIC AND SONG COACH: Hifaa Kamal

    COREOGRAPHY COACH: Nour Nizar Dissi

    PROJECT COORDINATOR: Hana Jabire

    PROJECT ASSISTANT: Wadaah Mahadeen

    TRANSLATOR: Wajd Al-Shamavleh

    Danish teamSTAGE DIRECTOR: Solveig Weinkouff

    PROJECT MANAGER: Firas Mahmoud

    CastMUNTAHA AMANI ANNA ENAS

    ABEER REEM TAQDEER LAYAL

    DANA TULIN SAJA

    Indexs. 4 Abeer's monologue

    s. 6 Layal's monologue

    s. 8 Reem's monologue

    s. 11 Saja's monologue

    s. 13 Scene: The Pink Dream

    monologue

    s. 15 Jordanian Women's

    Union

    s. 16 The aims of the JWU

    s. 17 Interview with Solveig

    Weinkouff

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    Jordanian teamSTAGE DIRECTOR

    AND DRAMATURGE: Sawsan Nizar Dissi

    MUSIC AND SONG COACH: Hifaa Kamal

    COREOGRAPHY COACH: Nour Nizar Dissi

    PROJECT COORDINATOR: Hana Jabire

    PROJECT ASSISTANT: Wadaah Mahadeen

    TRANSLATOR: Wajd Al-Shamavleh

    Danish teamSTAGE DIRECTOR: Solveig Weinkouff

    PROJECT MANAGER: Firas Mahmoud

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    ABEER REEM TAQDEER LAYAL

    DANA TULIN SAJA

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    s. 6 Layal's monologue

    s. 8 Reem's monologue

    s. 11 Saja's monologue

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    s. 15 Jordanian Women's

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    s. 16 The aims of the JWU

    s. 17 Interview with Solveig

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  • Happiness and joy are feelings I rarely felt

    when I was little, as I was living in a closed

    environment, burdened by the people

    surrounding us. There were many things

    I felt like experiencing and doing, but

    everything wasnt allowed. I wasnt allowed

    to go see my girl friends. They werent

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    My mom is afraid of what people might say.

    And to this day I cant forget when I was 13

    years old, and my mom came to pick me

    up from the street as I was playing with our

    neighbours kids. She took me inside and gave

    me a shower, blow-dried my hair and gave me

    ear-rings (and it was the first time I ever wore

    ear-rings!). I was very happy, but I didnt know

    what was waiting for me after that.

    On that occasion, she told me that her

    sisters family, whom I dont like, were

    coming to visit us. And I was very surprised

    when everyone started ululating and

    congratulating me. What for? I didnt know.

    Only when my mom said: Congratulations,

    bride of honour! I was shocked! What

    bride? How? Who? With whom?

    When I found out that they married me to

    my maternal aunts son, who I cant stand, I

    wished that I would die right there at that

    moment. We were engaged for 4 months,

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    Why do you need a degree? A woman has

    only her home and husband. Abeer

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  • and neither he nor I could continue, as the feeling was mutual. We broke up.

    Of course, this story affected my mom a great deal. She started to feel

    that she had to marry me in any way possible to get rid of peoples talk.

    Because I got engaged and broke up, its as if this is a stamp of shame on

    me. My mother didnt know that she with her fear of what people might

    say and the importance she puts in that, she was killing the childs spirit

    inside me.

    My engagement in a young age imposed on me a view from society that

    I must get married and that Im a mature woman capable of taking care

    of a home and responsibility; forgetting that Im a child of 13.

    My mom kept at me until she had me engaged one more time when I was

    16. This way I was denied my dream in life that I can finish my education

    and enter university. During my freshman year, I couldnt study because

    my fiance didnt leave me any room. During exams he would stay late

    at every night at my place, and I would go to the exams in the morning

    without any sleep or having studied. I used to sleep during the exams.

    Of course, I failed. And he wouldnt let me re-take the exams. Saying:

    Why do you need a degree? A woman has only her home and husband.

    This sentence that hurt me all-through our time of marriage. In the end,

    when all my chances of retaking the exam disappeared, I realised that he

    didnt want me to continue my education so that my level of education

    would surpass his. And as a result, I would become better than him,

    since he had only gone to school until 9th grade. This taught me that he

    is selfish and only loves himself.

    Im now 27 years old. I got divorced from my husband after living with

    him for 8 years and after all this time, I knew how to live with no fear

    from peoples talk. I went back to school after being gone for 9 years,

    and this was a very difficult feeling in the beginning. That I had to go

    back to reading and writing and staying up late. And taking care of work

    and school. But even though theres all this hardship involved, Im so

    happy. As much as I work hard, the look of joy and happiness is visible in

    my eyes. Because I feel that I exist. That Im capable of doing something

    worthwhile for myself. That Im able to reach my dream that Ive wanted

    since a long time ago.

    My parents were able to change themselves and accept me as I am and

    not pressure me with the subject of marriage. This is what happiness is

    all about. That a human being lives to realise her dream is much better

    than living to realise someone elses dream. As if anyone deserves this?!

    I feel like saying it out load to everyone:

    Im haaappyyyyy!

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  • Marriage was something unfamiliar and

    non-existent in my life. Especially, since I

    was raised in an environment that insisted on

    educational excellence and training my skills. My

    family was the reason that made me discover my

    talent for acting. After that I entered the world

    of theatre at the age of five, in addition to my

    hobbies, my main focus was on my education.

    For that Im grateful for my family.

    I remember the first time I was introduced

    to the idea of marriage, responsibility and

    importance was when I was ten years old.

    At that time, amy uncle decided to marry

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  • my cousin, who was 16. Her marriage was a huge shock to the family

    and created a lot of trouble. Especially since my family was all for

    women getting an education and jobs. And the bigger shock was that

    the reason was based on a material foundation, as she was marrying

    a wealthy person. After her marriage, my cousin would tell me about

    bodily violence and mental pressure, which she experienced from her

    husband and his family. One day, my cousin decided that she had to get

    a divorce after she had two children. Her decision wasnt accepted by

    her family, nor by society. But nevertheless, my cousin is now a working

    woman responsible for raising a complete family on her own.

    Whats puzzling me until this day is what moved my aunts husband to

    get rid of his daughter in a young age. And the more important question

    is, how did the law allow for such a thing, knowing that the law doesnt

    allow a women to be married when shes younger than 18?

    Following this incident, my mother insisted on putting me in a healthy

    social environment to teach me how to deal with others. And as time

    passed by and after I became 16, my family started discussing the topics

    of love and marriage with me. My parents were aware that each age I went

    through had certain demands and needs. So she explained to me that

    love and marriage shouldnt be built on materialism, or lineage, or social

    status. Not even on amazement or infatuation. My mother used to say:

    The saying that they were married and lived the rest of their lives in ease

    can only take place in fairy tales. In her opinion, a better saying would be:

    They were married and worked harder to make the relationship work.

    She was convinced that first comes love then marriage.

    As for me, marriage is still a mystery until this day. Although mom told

    me of her story and the stories of others so that I can learn from them,

    I feel that this matter really needs true love. More importantly: sacrifice.

    For me, marriage is not an option at the moment, as Im still finishing

    my education at the university to get my masters degree and a job and

    realize my dreams. As for love, its a reality Id live to experience at the

    right time, in the right place.

    Discuss the following questions

    Do you think that marriage

    and education are

    opposites or are both

    things possible at the same

    time? Why or why not?

    Layal wants to finish her

    education before getting

    married. Why does she

    think that is necessary?

    Find all the attitudes

    towards marriage in

    Layals monologue. What

    does her mother think

    about marriage? Her aunts

    husband? The law? Layal

    herself?

    Layals mother says that

    the perfect marriage and

    true love only exist in

    fairy tales. Do you agree?

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    the following questions

    Do you think that marriage

    and education are

    opposites or are both

    things possible at the same

    time? Why or why not?

    Layal wants to finish her

    education before getting

    married. Why does she

    think that is necessary?

    Find all the attitudes

    towards marriage in

    Layals monologue. What

    does her mother think

    about marriage? Her aunts

    husband? The law? Layal

    herself?

    Layals mother says that

    the perfect marriage and

    true love only exist in

    fairy tales. Do you agree?

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    The law doesnt allow a women to be married when shes younger than 18. Layal

  • The words that keep ringing in my ears:

    Girls! You know what my dream is? My

    dream is that all my girls and boys become

    academics with the best education.

    Until this day, theres no other dream for

    my father than the we learn and learn and

    be of those who are successful.

    I got married when I was 18, and marriage

    wasnt something that was on my mind.

    My fathers words wouldnt leave me. My

    husband is an educated man. He supported

    the idea of me getting an education. And

    because his work demands of him to stay

    out for long periods of time, I started

    living two lives. The life of the housewife

    taking care of all the responsibilities of our

    home. And another life of the university

    student who wants to learn and research

    and think and push forward. I put a lot of

    effort to deliver everything needed and

    despite all the hardship, I was proud of my

    achievement. I could see appreciation and

    high regards in the eyes of my parents and

    friends, which added to my self-esteem

    and my insisting on realizing my fathers

    dream, which I adopted so it became my

    own ambition.

    REEMs monologue

    8

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    REEMs monologue

    8

  • During the third year of university, God gave me my first

    child. Three weeks of maternity leave and I returned to

    continue my journey with an added third job on my list.

    The job of being a mother.

    Years passed as quick as lightning, and as a long night for

    those whore waiting, I finished my university degree with

    all my peers without any delay. I got very high marks in my

    right hand, and in my left I carried my son who was one year

    and three months. My happiness could fill the entire world

    and all the people in it.

    Success always pushes us forward as ambitions grow bigger.

    My ambition was to work within my specialized field, which

    I fell in love with. And another period of pressure began.

    My husband refused the idea of work every time with a

    new explanation. Either he would tell me to take a little

    rest, or he would ask where Amjad would go?? But whod

    take care of my things?

    I provided all the solutions and facilitation and compromises

    to get my husbands accept and I did indeed get it after a

    lot of insisting and stipulations. But all this didnt diminish

    my high spirit and enthusiasm.

    I started my work in just the place I wanted to in the field

    of educating handicapped children. So happy with my

    job every day I learn something new from it. I worked

    there for four years during which God blessed us with my

    daughter Ayah. I continued my work and Ayah became

    two years old, and as our children grew bigger so did our

    ambitions. My ambition was to found a small organisation

    that aims at educating and training handicapped children

    and defending their rights. Thank God, my organisation is

    now a name that is recognised in the field.

    The growth of my ambition disturbs my husband and

    annoys him. Im giving it all Ive got to keep him satisfied

    and to win his support and recognition, paying with my

    time, effort, thought, body and mind. But the taste of

    success is something else only known by those who try it.

    Worth all the work and sacrifice.

    After establishing my project (Aman) I started thinking

    about continuing my education, and the thing that worried

    me the most was how to discuss this with my husband

    whos worried about my ambition and asks me: Where

    do you want to go? What do you want to reach? Isnt it

    enough for you what you already achieved?

    My ambition exceeds the limits of the skies.

    I will continue my education and organise my time and will

    not ask for help from anyone. And indeed I started the

    journey towards my masters degree fuelled by my will and

    with me is my mothers prayers and fathers dream.

    Pressure and responsibility multiplied: a home that needs

    cleaning and organising, and a husband that wants all his

    rights, and two children in school, and work that needs

    management and leadership, and an education that needed

    high concentration. Strange feelings hard to describe.

    I told myself that its just a phase that will pass needing

    more management.

    The first year of my masters degree passed,

    during which me and my husband decided it

    was time to have another child to beautify

    our home. And so it was decided. All my

    responsibilities continued but this time with a body that

    was tired with physical transformations, dizzy spins and

    need for sleep. Despite all this, I only slept for two hours

    every day to be able to complete all my chores without any

    shortcomings and in the best way possible.

    I handed in my exam completely after one year and a half

    with better grades than most of my peers. Each time my

    ambition pushed me more and more.

    I got my masters degree to add to my personal and human

    achievement. A new achievement and high degree only to

    add in another month another beautiful child to my family.

    My daughter Randa, whos now 7 years old.

    A question keeps turning in my head. Why must a woman

    in our society choose only one of her rights? Either she

    gets married and become a housewife only, or she gets an

    education and a job only.

    My ambition grows each day. I will continue my education

    even more and develop my work, raise my children the ways

    I was raised so they can succeed with their education and

    work and create their own future and add value to life.

    9

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