Play Description
The Crime of Jamileh and Jeyraanin in an Apartment on Jomhouri Street (working title: The Hand Gloves of Marilyn Monroe) – workshop, not staged, 2020. [The performance of this project was canceled due to COVID-19; further rehearsals were planned throughout 2020 but were ultimately canceled]
Written by NASIR MALEKIJOO
A Brief Description
This play stages female transgression as an act of resistance, reclaiming crime not as moral failure but as a response to structural violence. Centering two women confined within a domestic interior, the work exposes how patriarchy criminalizes female desire, solidarity, and agency, turning the private home into a site of surveillance and control. Through a feminist dramaturgy that foregrounds the female body, voice, and object as political evidence, the play dismantles narratives of innocence and guilt, insisting on women’s right to anger, refusal, and authorship of their own stories.
