I and The Village

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So maybe I just want to opt out you know Maybe I dont to be part of the master plan. The big assembly line in the sky. Summer in small-town America. Aimee Stright wants to be Banksy in a town that hates vandals. As outsiders investigate what happened on the day she walked into a church with a gun, it seems Aimee is one against the world and the world wants to know why. Shortlisted for the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize, I And The Village is a coming-of-age story that asks pointed questions about conformity, dissent and America's devotion to guns. The play received its world premiere at Theatre503, London, on 9 June 2015.

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It's that rarest of things a genuinely emotionally engaging dilemma play, blooming into a funny, full-hearted exploration of cultural relativism, moral absolutes and the plurality of womanhood. * The Stage on 'Gather Ye Rosebuds' *
Silva Semerciyan's 'I and The Village' is a confident look at gun culture in the USA. . . . The way that Aimee's community chose to bury their responsibility for the deaths that bloody the church is a powerful metaphor for America's blinkeredness to the violence resulting from their right to keep and bear arms. . . . Semerciyan's dialogue zings . . . this individual story carries universal weight. * Time out London *

Author Bio

Silva Semerciyan is a native of Michigan and she moved to the UK in 1998. While at university, she wrote Another Mans Son, which won the William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting. Silva Semerciyan's play Gather Ye Rosebuds won the Best New Play award at the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2013. She holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and an MPhil in Playwriting from the University of Birmingham. She currently lectures in Drama and English in Bristol and is on attachment to the National Theatre Studio.