Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 26, 2004
Closed Dec 19, 2004

Playing at
45 Bleecker

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Assembled by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo and directed by Nicolas Kent and Sacha Wares, Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is a play based on the spoken and written testimony of Guantanamo detainees, lawyers and public officials. Their interviews were conducted at the end of March and the beginning of April 2004. Numerous attempts were made to get the viewpoint of members of the government, but to no avail.

Danny Glover, will perform at the final performance, Sunday, December 19th at 3PM. Mr. Glover will assume the role of Lord Justice Steyn, the British magistrate who objects to the detainment of political prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, an American military base in Cuba. Archbishop Desmond Tutu performed the same role in October.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

45 Bleecker
45 Bleecker St
New York, NY 10012

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Political theater, much needed in these parlous times, is having a resurgence. The bracing phenomenon owes a good deal of its impetus to London's Tricycle Theatre and its artistic director, Nicolas Kent. Besides importing politically engaged productions from elsewhere on the beset globe, Kent has, for the last decade, been presenting homegrown "tribunal plays" composed strictly of verbatim testimony and first-person reports.

Following hot-off-the-presses looks at, among other events, South Africa's Stephen Lawrence hearings and last year's investigations into David Kelly's suicide after the Iraqi war leaks, Kent has thrown Guantánamo into the faces of the theatergoing public. He and[...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Aug 27, 2004