Zarougian’s ‘This Armenian Life’

By Judith Saryan

SOMERVILLE, Mass.—In her first Boston-area performance of “This Armenian Life” on Wed., June 24, at the Somerville Center for the Arts, Laura Zarougian performed a hilarious take of growing up in Cambridge. She wrote, produced, and acted in this one-woman show, which weaves together family stories and folktales that serve as the backdrop to her childhood.

Her parents wanted her to be a true Cantabrigian surrounded by multiculturalism and diversity, but they had not bargained for Laura’s grandmothers, both of whom passed on their old country traditions to their keenly observant granddaughter. Absorbing their legacies and flair for the dramatic, Laura Zarougian speaks lovingly of fortunes in coffee cups, visits to Armenian church, the meaning of pilaf, and how eyebrows were the source of superhuman power.

Zarougian divulges the three most important words in Armenian, and they are not please and thank you. With a cupful of Cambridge, a pot of Armenian pilaf, and a dash of tinder, Zarougian creates an unexpected recipe for identity in America.

In her first Boston-area performance of “This Armenian Life” on Wed., June 24, at the Somerville Center for the Arts, Laura Zarougian performed a hilarious take of growing up in Cambridge.
In her first Boston-area performance of “This Armenian Life” on Wed., June 24, at the Somerville Center for the Arts, Laura Zarougian performed a hilarious take of growing up in Cambridge.
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  1. Can you please tell me the why eyebrows are the source of superhuman power? Thank you,

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