Local playwrights expose US torture at the San Francisco Fringe Festival
(PRLEAP.COM) SAN FRANCISCO — Four local playwrights plunge deep within their psyches to expose the folly of torture. These pleasant individuals were pushed by the current administration’s slide into cold-blooded, premeditated barbarism to write the unthinkable. Erin Blackwell led the months-long development process. Opera soprano Marcelle Dronkers lends voice to deep-tissue trauma in wordless arias.Inspired by Grand Guignol, Antonin Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty, daily headlines & childhood memories, Bay Area playwrights Darothy Durkac, Patricia Milton, Rodney Thomas & Alina Trowbridge invite you to:
Suspend your disbelief that torture is official U.S. policy.
Share a self-medicating doctor’s memory of sunsets on Gitmo.
Learn what to do with a detainee’s corpse.
Watch dedicated Pentagon staffers sort photos by degree of visible damage.
Guess who’s telling the truth: the guard or the inmate.
Wednesday September 6 at 10 pm
Thursday September 7 at 7 pm
Friday September 8 at 8:30 pm
Tuesday September 12 at 7 pm
Thursday September 14 at 7 pm
Friday September 15 at 10 pm
TICKETS: $9 onsite/$10 online
EXIT Theater, Stage Left
156 Eddy Street (between Mason & Taylor)
www.sffringe.org
“I reserve the right, as Commander-in-Chief and as head of the unitary executive, to do what I need to do to defend America.” — George W. Bush, signing statement, Detainee Treatment Act 2005
"Following their president’s lead, the American people seem to be developing a tolerance, even a taste, for torture." — Alfred McCoy, A Question of Torture (2006)
For more information, links to anti-torture activists + cruel & unusual blog please visit http://www.cruelandunusual.zoomshare.com
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