Palace of the End
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Opened Jun 23, 2008
Closed Jul 13, 2008
Opened Jun 23, 2008
Closed Jul 13, 2008
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Epic Theatre Ensemble presents the New York premiere of Palace of the End, by Judith Thompson, directed by Daniella Topol. Heather Raffo and Teri Lamm star.
Thompson's new play "surveys the guts and bile of human oppression" (L.A. Weekly) through three singular perspectives from the invasion and occupation of Iraq: Lynndie England of Abu Ghraib fame, David Kelley, the British scientist and weapons inspector who exposed Britain's faulty intelligence on WMDs and Nehrjas al-Saffarh, an Iraqi political leader whose family paid the ultimate price at the hands of Saddam Hussein.
Post-show discussions with the cast and guest speakers will follow every performance.
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Playwright Judith Thompson has based her uneven if powerful new drama, Palace of the End, being presented by Epic Theatre Ensemble at Playwrights Horizons, on three real-life individuals who have been -- for better or worse -- intimately connected to the current Middle East crisis. The author has taken liberties with each story, staying true to the basic facts, but taking a leap into the imagination in order to depict her subjects' interior lives.
The show begins with Teri Lamm as Lynndie England, one of the U.S. soldiers who was convicted of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Her monologue attempts to show how one individual can dehumanize another. As depicted here, Lynndie keeps saying th[...]