Ibadete Abazi

Ibadete Abazi is a screenwriter /playwright, born in former Yugoslavia. She is a lawful permanent resident of the United States (Green Card holder) currently living in New York City. She holds an MFA in playwriting and BA in dramaturgy from the Art Faculty at University of Pristina, Kosovo. She was co-writer of a 12-part television series called "Qyteti Pa Lumë" (City without a River). The latter was broadcast via Radio Television of Kosovo/RTK in 2010. The following year, she was the screenplay-writer of 14 more episodes of the same TV series. Abazi's first play, entitled ‘Soldier of Two Wars’ was produced on December 2015 at Kosovo's Dodona Theatre. The play is considered a very powerful production, whose focus is an American soldier who served in Balkan conflicts - specifically the wars...

Ibadete Abazi is a screenwriter /playwright, born in former Yugoslavia. She is a lawful permanent resident of the United States (Green Card holder) currently living in New York City. She holds an MFA in playwriting and BA in dramaturgy from the Art Faculty at University of Pristina, Kosovo. She was co-writer of a 12-part television series called "Qyteti Pa Lumë" (City without a River). The latter was broadcast via Radio Television of Kosovo/RTK in 2010. The following year, she was the screenplay-writer of 14 more episodes of the same TV series. Abazi's first play, entitled ‘Soldier of Two Wars’ was produced on December 2015 at Kosovo's Dodona Theatre. The play is considered a very powerful production, whose focus is an American soldier who served in Balkan conflicts - specifically the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo - and married a wealthy Albanian Kosovar. The play has been translated from the original Albanian into English and Turkish. Abazi has also authored two other plays entitled ‘Female Aroma’ and ‘Two Enemies and Soldiers’, both produced in Kosovo in 2016. Also credited to her are short plays such as “Push Off” “Kos-women-war” and “Three in one”. She is a screenwriter of "The Book of Blood" a future movie scenario, based on true story. Ibadete is married and has two daughters.

Scripts

FEMALE AROMA

by Ibadete Abazi

Cast Size

3

Genre

adventure,

dark comedy,

drama,

experimental,

political,

radio drama,

satire

Female Aroma focuses on the tragic reality of war-torn countries, in which statistically, one out of three women is said to be abused daily by men. It involves the resonant, emotional story of a woman who puts her husband into women's clothes in order to save him from harm during the Yugoslav war, but forgets to cover herself before the paramilitaries. As a result, Serbian soldiers rape her, while her husband...

Female Aroma focuses on the tragic reality of war-torn countries, in which statistically, one out of three women is said to be abused daily by men. It involves the resonant, emotional story of a woman who puts her husband into women's clothes in order to save him from harm during the Yugoslav war, but forgets to cover herself before the paramilitaries. As a result, Serbian soldiers rape her, while her husband looks on tormentingly and silently, unable to help her. Following the conflict's end, the couple is forced to leave the province due to the shame of the incident, and subsequently relocate to the city. While in the capital, the husband obtains a government job, and is quickly promoted to the highest levels. As he slowly but surely embraces a greedy, corrupt lifestyle, he urges his wife to embezzle funds, and sign documents which will later give her away to the authorities. After her crime is discovered, she is arrested and jailed. The man, now powerful and arrogant, marries another woman, whom he treats shabbily once he tires of her. Not long into the production, a female cable technician arrives, and early in the discussion with the wife, demonstrates how surprisingly strong "Girl Power" can be. By the play's end, the women’s' combined strength helps to bring the perpetrator to justice, and ends up scoring major points for a woman's important role in society.

SOLDIER OF TWO WARS

by Ibadete Abazi

Cast Size

2

Genre

drama

Jimmy, American fighter who fought in Bosnia join the Kosovo Liberation Army - KLA in 1999, and for having fled the US Army as a deserter remains alone at Hotel Tirana in Albania, without support from America nor the KLA. He meets Adriana, a beautiful girl from rich Albanian family in Kosovo. Their love ends in marriage very soon and after 15 years of marriage in post-war Kosovo, one late night, Jimmy and...

Jimmy, American fighter who fought in Bosnia join the Kosovo Liberation Army - KLA in 1999, and for having fled the US Army as a deserter remains alone at Hotel Tirana in Albania, without support from America nor the KLA. He meets Adriana, a beautiful girl from rich Albanian family in Kosovo. Their love ends in marriage very soon and after 15 years of marriage in post-war Kosovo, one late night, Jimmy and Adriana start a quarrel because their five-month- old son is crying. Jimmy asks Adriana to calm the boy, while Adriana complains that Jimmy does not support her at home. Their conflict highlishts all the lies and marital problems accumulated for sixteen years, which was in fact the first real clash in their relationship. At the end we understand that both Jimmy and Adriana have been withholding with in themselves all these problems and the whole marriage is built on lies. After a fierce debate over who is right and who is wrong, the conflict escalates into physical attack. Jimmy suddenly falls to his knees in pain because of a bullet that he still has inside his body, a remnant of one of the two wars in which he has fought. Adriana benefits from Jimmy’s fall and takes control of the situation. The question is: Can an American-Kosovo soldier who served in wars in Bosnia and Kosovo survive his rich wife?