Sound

Sound

Skeleton Key Theatre

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September 2022 – Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, died in Tehran while in the custody of the "morality” police after she was arrested for “improper hijab”. Days after her death, protesters flooded the streets chanting “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi.”

“Women, Life, Freedom.”

A week before Mahsa’s death, Ava Alavi moved to Canada from Iran.

As her friends in Iran joined in yelling “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi”, Ava was here, safe but stuck. Shouting "Women, Life, Freedom" from thousands of miles away, she needed to do something. So she created Sound, merging her personal experiences as a woman raised in Iran with the broader political and social struggles unfolding in her home country.

Sound carries the echoes of generations of women living under oppression, their moments of silence, survival, and defiance merging into one collective voice. It serves as proof that in a place designed to erase them, to exist is to rebel.

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Created by Ava Alavi

Performed by Ava Alavi, Laurence Gallant, Zar Mousavi

Directed by Caity Smyck and Ava Alavi

Stage Managed by Abigaile Gagnon

Costume Design by Bonnie Garland

Video Design by Yasaman Moradi

Lighting Design by Mariana Gomez

Dramaturgy by Emily Pearlman

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14+ | Fog/Haze, References to Sexual Content,References to Sexual Violences, Flashing Lights & Projections, Verbal Descriptions of Violence & War

Duration: 60 mins

Accessible entries: Accessible entryways are located at 10 Daly Ave. and 67 Nicholas St.