Am I Who? x 2
Sahra Davoudi
A show for anyone who’s ever felt too foreign in one room and not foreign enough in another.
The customer says: ‘Your accent is so beautiful’. She says: ‘Thank you, it caused me enormous financial hardship’.
One performer, countless places, countless versions of her. Tehran, Melbourne, the immigration office, the kebab shop, her boss’s car (the molester), the family WhatsApp screen (‘I’m fine’), the handsome lover (Iranian).
Through sharp self-observation and deeply unnecessary levels of oversharing, she moves through loneliness disguised as charisma, freedom that doesn’t always feel free, and the strange emotional shapeshifting required to constantly fit in anywhere, everywhere, somewhere?
Part confession, part performance, part very public emotional unravelling, Am I Who? x 2 explores what happens when survival becomes second nature – when performing yourself starts to feel safer than being yourself.
Written by Sahra Davoudi, a recent graduate of the VCA Master of Theatre (Writing) who regularly writes and performs with Outer Urban Projects, a performing arts company collaborating with emerging artists and their communities in the “hardcore” outer northern suburbs of Melbourne.
