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SURVIVAL STORY OF TWO ARMENIANS DURING GENOCIDE TO BE PRESENTED IN BOSTON THEATRE
news.am
March 04, 2012 | 04:44
Next week the story of two Armenian women surviving the horrific
genocide of Armenians in Turkey will be presented on stage in Boston
due to the efforts and persistence of one particular man who tried
to keep history alive, The Boston Globe reports.
Shrewsbury dentist Martin Deranian, 89, lost his mother when he was
less than 7-years-old and throughout his life he tried to find out
what had happened to his mother and all the other heroic women during
the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
"Deported: a dream play,'~R by Elliot Norton Award-winning Newton
playwright Joyce Van Dyke is based on the story of her grandmother
Elmas Sarajian and Deranian's mother Varter Nazarian.
The women moved to America after they had lost everything including
their husbands and children during the Armenian Genocide.
When Van Dyke was a child she often asked her grandmother what had
happened to her then, but she would never fully tell her story.
"I only know parts of the story because the family never talked about
the genocide," Van Dyke says, whose play is to be presented at Boston
Playwrights' Theatre, beginning Thursday.
news.am
March 04, 2012 | 04:44
Next week the story of two Armenian women surviving the horrific
genocide of Armenians in Turkey will be presented on stage in Boston
due to the efforts and persistence of one particular man who tried
to keep history alive, The Boston Globe reports.
Shrewsbury dentist Martin Deranian, 89, lost his mother when he was
less than 7-years-old and throughout his life he tried to find out
what had happened to his mother and all the other heroic women during
the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
"Deported: a dream play,'~R by Elliot Norton Award-winning Newton
playwright Joyce Van Dyke is based on the story of her grandmother
Elmas Sarajian and Deranian's mother Varter Nazarian.
The women moved to America after they had lost everything including
their husbands and children during the Armenian Genocide.
When Van Dyke was a child she often asked her grandmother what had
happened to her then, but she would never fully tell her story.
"I only know parts of the story because the family never talked about
the genocide," Van Dyke says, whose play is to be presented at Boston
Playwrights' Theatre, beginning Thursday.