Name: FIRST LADY by Sedef Ecer (presented by PICT)
Start: 2025-10-04T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-04T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Carnegie Stage

FIRST LADY by Sedef Ecer (presented by PICT)

👑 FIRST LADY 🔥
Written by Sedef Ecer, translation by Amelia Parenteau
Directed by Adil Mansoor
ABOUT THE PLAY: 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝙻𝙰𝙳𝚈 is a satirical romp through the last vestiges of power of an imaginary Mesopotamian country.
Queen Ishtar lives in a bubble, oblivious to the uprising of an enslaved people. Half goddess in a sanitized cocoon, half guinea pig in an experimental aquarium, she will be the unwitting catalyst for an explosive reaction. A revolution is brewing in the streets, but no one told the First Lady, who is enjoying a holiday at her summer palace with Gazal, her beloved trans stylist. Everyone in the palace is abandoning ship, so the Advisors decide to do a live, televised interview with the clueless and unpredictable First Lady, to assure the public that all is well in the country when in reality it is complete chaos. Elish, the harried Chief of Staff, is called in to make sure she does not stray from their prepared script, while also monitoring Yasmine, the young journalist they dug up from a fishing magazine, to make sure she does not mention politics as the farce ramps up into a full manic energy.
Directed by Adil Mansoor, Ecer’s timely play speaks to the delusive nature of power, corruption, and cronyism in a scathing, hilarious critique of this seminal moment in global politics. As waves of political unrest sweep through the United States, it is easier than ever to see the fault lines in our democracy and envision what its unraveling might resemble.

🗓️: October 2 - 11
📍: Carnegie Stage, 25 W Main St, Carnegie, PA 15106
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For more information, visit https://www.picttheatre.org/.