Playwriter: Paul Zindel
Directed by Fatollah Niazi
Actress: Pooneh Mojtaba
Role: Tillie
Iranian Artists Forum
Tehran, Iran, April 2010

Shy Matilda “Tillie” Hunsdorfer prepares her experiment, involving marigolds raised from seeds exposed to radioactivity, for the science fair. She is, however, constantly thwarted by her mother Beatrice, who is self-centered and abusive, and by her extroverted and unstable sister Ruth, who submits to her mother’s will.