The Disappearance

The Disappearance, based on the short story by award-winning Mexican-born writer Ilan Stavans, presents the harrowing, based-in-fact story of Maarten Soetendrop, a Jewish actor who may have staged his own kidnapping to awaken his community to a resurgence of anti-Semitism. Through an evocative, dream-like melding of puppetry, live music, and video projections, Double Edge Theatre addresses urgent questions of guilt and conscience in an atmosphere of mystery and discovery. A Q&A with Stavans and members of the theater company follows the performance.