Blood and Gifts
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 21, 2011
Closed Jan 8, 2012
Opened Nov 21, 2011
Closed Jan 8, 2012
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Running Time:
3hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
3hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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Commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, and presented this past fall in London at the National Theatre, Blood and Gifts tells the story of the secret spy war behind the official Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s. Spanning a decade and playing out in Washington DC, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, the play follows CIA operative Jim Warnock as he struggles to stop the Soviet Army's destruction of Afghanistan. The ground constantly shifts for Jim and his counterparts in the KGB and British and Pakistani secret service as the political and personal alliances between the men keeps changing. And as the outcome of the entire Cold War comes into play, Jim and a larger-than-life Afghan warlord find the only person they can trust is each other. Blood and Gifts tells the story of the unknown men who shaped one of the greatest historical events of recent history, the repercussions of which continue to shape our world.
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Playwright J.T. Rogers pulls back the curtain on America's covert involvement in Afghanistan's war with Russia in his compelling new play, Blood and Gifts, playing at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre. Directed with understated theatricality by Bartlett Sher, the production, both swirling and static, is filled with a host of fine performances.
Theatergoers will find that it may take a while to get their bearings in the play, which centers on James Warnock (Jeremy Davidson), a CIA operative in Pakistan on a mission to aid the Afghans in their efforts to beat the Soviets. On behalf of the U.S. government, he can supply rebels with arms, but only in secret, working through I[...]