Our Lives Inseparable | Bosnia
Playwright - Sanita Fejzić
Synopsis - Saša, George, Iman and Cassandra meet at the Sunnyside library’s café, a space where everyone is welcome. But are they really? George, a gay unhoused man, is desperate to change his situation, while Iman, the child of refugees, struggles to get out of intergenerational poverty. Saša, Director of the library’s non-fiction department, wants to be with Iman but when Cassandra, a wealthy noblewoman from Europe accidently enters the picture, difficult truths come to surface.
Our Lives Inseparable dwells on the impacts of absurd wealth and extreme poverty in a time of escalating social crisis. Economic status is embedded in our sexual and emotional lives, deeply rooted in our psyches and relationship dynamics, echoing through the centuries like Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.
All staged readings begin at 6 PM followed by a talkback and complimentary reception.
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Sanita Fejzić
Sanita Fejzić is a playwright, poet, and literary writer.
Her play, Blissful State of Surrender, premiered at the Great Canadian Theatre Company on February 22, 2022, and was recently published by Playwrights Canada Press. The production was nominated for five Rideau Awards, winning Best Actress. In 2023, Sanita produced Why Worry About Their Futures at the undercurrents festival, a tryptic of three short plays including her climate play, “Expecting.” Sanita’s futurist radio play, Machines and Moss, was produced by the National Arts Centre in 2024.
Sanita is midwifing Peasant Futurisms, an artistic movement that expresses peasant perspectives of the future, past, and present. Planting the seeds of queer and feminist futures that center foraging, permaculture gardening, and organic regenerative farming, Sanita’s body of work is concerned with social and ecological justice.
She lives with her wife and two children on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people in Ottawa, Canada. Originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, she fled the Siege of Sarajevo and genocide of her Bosniak people at the age of seven, and lived as a refugee, illegal immigrant, and “temporary guest” across three countries before seeking permanent refuge in Canada.
KYLE M. STAFFORD, (DIRECTOR, he/him) is part of the next generation of American theatremakers, and is ecstatic to be joining IVP once again! Selected directing credits include LETTERS TO LIZ (The Theatre School at DePaul University, fall 2024), SPRING AWAKENING (Act One Project, summer 2024), ALICE BY HEART (summer ‘23, California premiere), and the 4-part First Year FLOPS! cabaret series (DePaul University, ‘23-’24). Kyle served as the Founder/Artistic Director of Act One Project - Orange County’s independent student-led theatre initiative (2021-2024), creating a multitude of performance opportunities during its time, and allowing 50+ young creatives to explore their place in the theatre industry. He is a sophomore Theatre Management major within The Theatre School at DePaul University – serving as the Artistic Director of The Theatre School’s Musical Theatre Players, as well as the Fundraising Manager of the Prototypes New-Work Festival. He currently works as an Administrative Intern for Lazy Susan Theatre Company, and is looking for any opportunities the summer may hold! OCSA Musical Theatre & Acting alum. @kylemstafford | kylemstafford.com