... of language in wartime, conducted in 2008. The playwrights respond to the Iraq War by discussing the responsibility of theater artists in crisis and salient examples from their work. © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 Moderated by Caridad Svich Now or Later, by Christopher...

...Andrew Steggall Andrew Steggall, Iraq, 2005. Courtesy of Georgia Oetker Andrew Steggall Artist ’s Journal Directing Stravinsky’s  The Soldier’s Tale I’m afraid I had, since I was a boy, been rather suspicious of foreigners, especially dark ones. And Arabs, despite...

... their sister petrolia—still in Which the Events Are imprison’d—they can only guarantee a broken Set Forth in Their Entirety future for Iraq, no matter how great their gifts. The dark prison of petrolia is revealed. The performance...

... a dialogue againthe President would report.) S between Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein and The artists featured in this issue of THEATER have not the Prophet Mohammed. According to a Kuwaiti dreamed of prophets recently - with the exception of a few newspaper...

... almost immediately after Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, probes the media systems, military-industrial mar- keting, racism, and quid-pro-quo rationalism that brought the American war machine into Iraq. Strictly speaking, there are no characters, only voices, in this play...

...Tom Sellar Voices in Conflict, 2007. Photo: Jaisen Crockett Up Front Hearing Voices Voices in Conflict, an ensemble-created production based on the letters and words of soldiers serving in Iraq, made its off Broadway debut at New York’s Joseph Papp Public Theater on June 15, 2007...

...Miriam Felton-Dansky; Jacob Gallagher-Ross Voices in Conflict, 2007. Photo: Jaisen Crockett Up Front Hearing Voices Voices in Conflict, an ensemble-created production based on the letters and words of soldiers serving in Iraq, made its off Broadway debut at New York’s Joseph Papp...

... as a jurist, issuing fatwas (rulings on Islamic law) despite his young age and soon leading the clerics in Baghdad and Iraq. Mohamed Bin Daoud was said to be enamored with a youth from Isfahan, a certain Mohamed Bin Jamea, who was known to lavish and spend on Bin Daoud so much so that it was said, Never...

... against Iraq. The project was inspired by two Reading Lysistrata North American actors, Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower, who used the resources of on the southeast the Internet to get more than 300,000 people from fifty-nine countries to participate slope of the in the readings.1 Remarkably...

... against Iraq. The project was inspired by two Reading Lysistrata North American actors, Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower, who used the resources of on the southeast the Internet to get more than 300,000 people from fifty-nine countries to participate slope of the in the readings.1 Remarkably...

... Salvador and Chile). For incurring civilian casualties in aerial bombing campaigns since the 1990s  — especially in Afghanistan and Iraq — Pinter has called Bush and Blair war criminals and murderers, and has demanded their arraignment in the Interna- tional Court of Justice...

... means that those offi cials who lied or misled the nation into an unnecessary and disastrous war in Iraq will not be held responsible. The election also appears to signal that senior members of the administration who sanc- tioned the torture of detainees in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo...

... Svitch and Naomi Wallace take inspiration from revulsion against the US war in Iraq, reaching for a remaking of lan- guage as pathway to resistance. Annie Dorsen offers a potential alteration of our future by linking options and autonomy to seeing and revealing algorithmic structures in the- ater. Thomas...

... by 119 honegger Mother Courage means of a military in Iraq. And it is sad, it Is there hope now? and Her Children, is horrible that people learn only once there New York, 2006. Well I think there is — but again you go...

... delivers loss. Although their preoccupations vary—from the timeliness of America’s disastrous imperial foreign-policy fantasies in Iraq, to the inhumanity of Russia’s underworld, to Hades’ more eternal subterranean realm—these very different young artists share an acute awareness of the power...

... originating from the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, there is a certain incon- gruity. Despite the photographic accounts of this slaughter, Americans rarely or never saw images of maimed soldiers or suff ering civilians, soldiers’ coffi ns, or cities under actual bombardment. Pictures of prisoner...

.... Horribly, the Iraq war reading of Gulliver’s dropped these circumstances in my lap. Choice, New Group, New York City, It is perhaps worth mentioning that Gulliver’s Choice...

... of the Afghan wars, the Chechen revolt, and the American invasion of Iraq. Consisting of two parts, Le fl euve cruel (The Cruel Stream/River) and Origines et destines (Origins and Destinations/Destinies) by Mnouchkine’s longtime col- laborator Hélène Cixous, the epic performance was developed over several...

... of the Afghan wars, the Chechen revolt, and the American invasion of Iraq. Consisting of two parts, Le fl euve cruel (The Cruel Stream/River) and Origines et destines (Origins and Destinations/Destinies) by Mnouchkine’s longtime col- laborator Hélène Cixous, the epic performance was developed over several...

... of the Afghan wars, the Chechen revolt, and the American invasion of Iraq. Consisting of two parts, Le fl euve cruel (The Cruel Stream/River) and Origines et destines (Origins and Destinations/Destinies) by Mnouchkine’s longtime col- laborator Hélène Cixous, the epic performance was developed over several...