Pages #11: Stage, so far, so near

The new issue of Pages Magazine consists entirely of plays and performance texts by Iranian women writers living in or outside of Iran. These writings, whether based on actual experience, fictional, or drawn from archives, deal in one way or another with the question of the stage. They produce a contested space of performance that is inevitably linked to the performer’s body, whose thresholds are stretched and contracted into a potentially new forms of staging. The authors in this issue place their writing in performative relation to the specific historical and sociopolitical conditions in which they live and work.