SOHRAB HAGHVERDI
SWEEPS OR THE VIOLENCE PLAY (ACTOR)
Directed By Linnea Jean Bond
Role: Yousef
Developed in The Foundry at PlayPenn, Summer 2019
Naomi is Bad Ass. But she is on the lam and she's pissed off. Yousef is hiding in the trees, but he's scared and a ghost and he doesn't know what's going on. Both are running from the war that has ravaged their communities, both are stuck in this moment indefinitely. As their capacity for understanding the other grows, so does the war around them. Their intersecting life experiences strip all superfluity and reduce their paths ahead to the most fundamental human impulse for violence. They leave each other to re-enter the war, as Yousef stays trapped in supernatural limbo with a burgeoning need for vengeance, and Naomi tries to make good on a mission gone bad.