shackles

"Shackles" is a bold play that sheds light on the tragedy of a woman trapped between the shackles of society and the cruelty of a traditional, loveless marriage, in a time when women were not granted their full human rights. Through the character of "Irene," Felix Fares brilliantly depicts how oppression and deprivation can turn a woman's life into a suffocating prison, and how forced marriage becomes a series of shackles that shackle the soul before the body. When Irene meets her old frien...