Aug 18, 2004
A Play for Mona
Mona Mahmudnizhad was a teacher of children’s classes in the Baha’i community of Shiraz, Iran. At age 16, during the country’s intense political revolution, she was the youngest of 9 women who became targets of the regime’s persecution of religious minorities, and in 1983 they were executed, to great public outcry. Twenty years later, Mark Perry and The Drama Circle performed a play to honor her story of service, emprisonment and martyrdom. This film documents that journey, and tells the true story of Mona’s life.