FATIMA & MAAMA: A Ten-Minute TFY Play

by Asher Wyndham

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.

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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  • Rachel Bublitz: FATIMA & MAAMA: A Ten-Minute TFY Play

    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.

    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: FATIMA & MAAMA: A Ten-Minute TFY Play

    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.

    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: FATIMA & MAAMA: A Ten-Minute TFY Play

    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.

    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.

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Development History

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

Production History

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

Awards

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