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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 10, 2008
Closed Mar 2, 2008

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http://www.womensproject.org/07-08_season.htm

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Alone in the middle of a desert, three young American soldiers are ordered to guard an abandoned gas station. Trapped in a confusing, boring, often terrifying occupation, the three confront powers foreign and domestic, secular and divine, real and imagined. Daniella Topol directs this world premiere play by Trista Baldwin.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Julia Miles Theater
424 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

It's no news that millions of Americans opposing the war in Iraq sincerely support the troops there. Playwright Trista Baldwin obviously counts herself among the vast number, but it's doubtful whether
Sand -- the damn-the-war outcry that she began writing in 2003 and which the Women's Project is currently presenting -- is the ideal way to demonstrate that heartfelt support.



The three figures in desert fatigues whom Baldwin introduces are passing bored hours guarding a remote gas station. The setting -- which Anita Fuchs has designed to resemble an explosion in a ceramics factory -- is the dramatist's reminder that oil is the true rationale for United States presence in the late Sad[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Feb 11, 2008

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