Jacob A. Ware and Layla Khoshnoudi (photo credit: SuzAnne Barabas)
Seriously hinged in the way it veers from melodramatic excess into the blackest comedy, Australian writer Rick Viede play Nobody's Girl nevertheless had me in its severely schizophrenic grip. Apparently re-written for the U.S., to change the play's lead character from an Australian Aborigine to an Iranian Muslim woman, it revolves around the attempt by Anthony Donnally (Jacob A. Ware) a social worker with aspirations of being a successful published writer to pass off as truth a fictitious memoir he has written pretending to be the young woman Nita Saleem/Currah (Layla Khoshnoudi) whose case he had been assigned.
To give heft and a sensational aspect to Nita's rather traditional immigration story, he fabricates one with her approval with the promise of money and fame. In it, she describes her experiences of being sexually abused by her father in the basement of their Midwestern home. The catch is that the story containing details of her sexual bondage is not only being peddled as a personal memoir but the shocking confession that she enjoyed the humiliation and subjugation.To read the entire review please go to CurtainUp.com <a href="www.curtainup.com/Nobody'sGirl.html">Nobody's Girl </a>
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