The Public's Oskar Eustis to Direct Pulitzer Prize Winner Lawrence Wright's Fallaci at Berkeley Rep
Concetta Tomei and Marjan Neshat will star in the world premiere production.
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Fallaci is named for its main character, legendary Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who gained fame by grilling the likes of Kissinger, Castro, Khomeini, and Qadaffi and for an antiauthoritarian zeal, fueled by a childhood resisting the Nazis. In the play, a young woman interviews the fiery writer near the end of her life.
"Oriana Fallaci was a hero of mine," said Wright in a statement. "She was dazzling and fearless and she made journalism seem like the most exciting job on earth."
Lawrence Wright has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992. He is the author of eight books, including The Looming Tower, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and most recently Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief.