"I used to think that state aid to the theatre was the
solution. There should be state aid, of course, but I've grown
frightened of people who hold the money.
Bureaucrats are dangerous in any art, in any land. It
would be fine if government would put in the money and then go mind its
business. But it won't."
-Lillian Hellman
1962
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Production Photographs of
PALACE OF THE END
Scroll down to see the Cast in Action.
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EXPECTING TROUBLE
In the play's first monologue "My Pyramids," a
very pregnant "Soldier" (Kelly
Beuth*) recounts the
painful truth about her time as a prison guard at Abu Graib. |
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THE MEMORIES
Our "Soldier" can't hide from the gruesome memories of
her actions at Abu Graib . . . nor can she hide from the pictures that
leaked out to the World.
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FACING DOWN DEATH
With death only a few minutes away, British weapons expert Dr. David
Kelly (Lawrence
Rowswell*) tells the whole story of how he came to
expose the Blair Government's lies about their reasons for invading Iraq in
the play's second monologue "Harrowdown Hill." |
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FACING YOUR OWN REFLECTION
Actor Lawrence Rowswell under a projection of the real life Dr. David
Kelly.
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TEA AND TORTURE
In the play's third and final monologue "Instruments of
Yearning," Nehrjas Al Saffarh (Dana
Block*) tells her
harrowing story of torture and endurance under Saddam Hussein's
dictatorship in the 1980s. |
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THE GLORIES OF WESTERN
INTERVENTION
Nehrjas tells of the horrors that befell Baghdad as the CIA supported
the Baathist Coup.
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AN UNLIKELY TRIO
The ensemble gathers together -- a "Soldier" (Kelly
Beuth*, standing left), Dr. David Kelly (Lawrence
Rowswell*, seated
center), and Nehrjas Al Saffarh (Dana
Block*, standing right). |
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* = indicates members of the Subversive Theatre
Collective
Photography by Kurt Schneiderman.
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