FRANKLIN - Franklin Stage Company will present an encore performance of Hend Ayoub’s one-woman show entitled HOME? A Palestinian Woman’s Search for Life, Liberty and Happiness July 24–26 in Chapel Hall in Franklin, NY. “We are thrilled to bring this funny, compassionate and poignant show to Franklin Stage,” said Franklin Stage Artistic Director Patricia Buckley.”
Hend Ayoub’s powerful solo performance explores identity, displacement, and belonging. Blending masterful storytelling, humor, and movement, the piece explores the search for home amid borders, language, and memory and invites audiences into an intimate, urgent conversation about migration, resilience, and selfhood. Through personal history, embodied storytelling, political observation, and moments of vulnerability, HOME? resonates, connects, and sparks empathy across cultures and generations. The show has been called “A story of hope and gratitude,” by Broadway World and The Washington Post said of the piece, “Ayoub projects a radiant presence and puts wit and warmth on the map.”
HOME? is an autobiographical story about a young woman’s journey to retrieve and imagine a new sense of home. Through a panoply of vivid characters – from a five-year-old who just wants to join the neighborhood Purim party, to an Egyptian casting director who won’t accept where she comes from, to her dying mother who longs for her daughter to find a place in the world – Hend shares a deeply personal, true story about a search for the place that many of us take for granted: Home.
Showtimes are Friday, July 24 at 7:30 p.m, Saturday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 26 at 5 p.m. For more information and to make reservations, visit www.franklinstagecompany.org.
