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Summer 2014 |

Fauna and Blood

In 2013 the playwright Yasmine Rana was invited to submit a short play for a ten-minute festival in New York. She responded with a piece that was, in part, a dramatic response to the art installation by Imran Qureshi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Roof Garden Commission. We were seized with admiration for “Fauna and Blood” and accepted it for publication in KROnline. Ms. Rana then offered a companion piece, also of great power. We are delighted to present both short plays here, along with photos of Imran Qureshi’s The Roof Garden Commission, which inspired them.

Fauna and Blood premiered in New York in the spring of 2014 at T. Schreiber Studio and Theater.

Fauna and Blood

 

Fauna and Blood: Tears

 

Yasmine Beverly Rana received a 2015 Fellowship for Playwriting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Scarred was produced in New York by T. Schreiber Studio Theatre's Freedom Festival.