“Melodrama is so much fun to write. You can really be extra” SophiaAlMaria LittleBirds
In the early 1940s, Anaïs Nin was part of a literary group penning erotic novels for a dollar a day, amassing a series of short stories published asin 1979, two years after her death.
Set amid a luxurious landscape that recalls the sumptuous colour palette of Slim Aarons’ photographs,strikes the perfect balance between drama and camp. “Melodrama is so much fun to write. You can really be extra,” Al-Maria says. “When I was writing some of the scenes I was cackling to myself because it was so ridiculous but it also has this under layer of real heft in the history and the research that went into it.
Al-Maria’s exquisite portrayals of sex, wealth, power, culture, and identity allow her to create characters so true to life that we become deeply invested in their destinies. “The story shows the ways we push each other to grow. That is one of the realest stories I can hope to tell,” Al-Maria says. Directed by Stacie Passon and featuring a stellar supporting cast that includes cult actress and fashion icon Rossy de Palma and Nina Sosanya , Al-Maria’s characters speak to the confluence between the past and present times. “I was joking early on in the writing that it could be called ‘How Lucy Got Woke,’” Al-Maria says. “She has to escape the patriarchy that was also drugging her, then meets Cherifa and people who fundamentally change her worldview, her moral compass, and her loyalties.
Like her characters, Al-Maria is reckoning with the cataclysmic changes we face as today. “I’m trying to educate myself and grow quickly,” she says. “I’m thinking a lot about how everything is connected: the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter Movement, the desire for abolition, the environment, and the way that all of that will radically impact the future. How to be an active participant in history is what has been on my mind the most.
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