FATIMA & MAAMA: A Ten-Minute TFY Play

SHORT/10 MIN. Fatima, a 15-year old Iraqi-American girl, wants to attend her Homecoming Dance so she can impress some bullies --with her HARDCORE KRUMPING! Her traditional mother says No.
National Semi-Finalist for the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival's Ten-Minute Play Festival, 2009.
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FATIMA & MAAMA: A Ten-Minute TFY Play

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  • Rachel Bublitz:
    22 Apr. 2018
    I'm so impressed with the layering of these characters, and the huge stakes both are facing. FATIME & MAAMA is set up so beautifully, and so quickly, as it's a ten-minute, and Wyndham does an excellent job also showing the love/hate relationships between mothers and their teens.
  • Jordan Elizabeth Henry:
    5 Nov. 2017
    The depth of the love between Fatima and her Maama is palpable in this lovely short play. The roles would be a dream come true for two young Arab-American actresses -- Fatima and Maama are complex, funny, and exuberant.
  • Matthew Weaver:
    28 Feb. 2017
    Lovely. Mothers and daughters around the globe will recognize themselves in this touching, heartwrenching short. Fatima bursts with vibrance and youth, and Maama has her back as only a mother can. It's a snapshot of a family, with its hardships and heartaches, but one gets the sense that these women will not only persist, but thrive together. Even as they drive one another up a wall. Should be performed everywhere.

Development History

  • Workshop
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    Workshopped and staged read at ATHE (American Theatre for Higher Education), Los Angeles
    ,
    2010
  • Workshop
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    Workshopped and staged read at the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival at Dixie State College, UT
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    2010

Production History

  • Professional
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    Short + Sweet, Sydney, Australia, January
    ,
    2011
  • Professional
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    Point of No Contention Theatre Company, part of CHAOS Festival, Chicago, November
    ,
    2011

Awards

Semi-Finalist
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Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival's Ten-Minute Play Festival
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Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival
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2009