A.R.T. Announces Free Staged Reading of Robert Schenkkan's BUILDING THE WALL

A.R.T. of Human Rights: A free reading of Building the Wall
Wednesday, November 1 at 7:30PM
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
1515 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

By Robert Schenkkan (All the Way)
Directed by Ari Edelson

Building the Wall lays out the potential consequences of contemporary anti-immigration campaign rhetoric. Set in 2019, the play imagines the rhetoric has become policy, and massive numbers of undocumented immigrants and others have been incarcerated in private prisons and camps. As Rick, the former warden of one facility, awaits sentencing for events which happened under his watch, he is interviewed by Gloria, a historian who has come in search of the truth about how the unthinkable became the inevitable.

A.R.T. of Human Rights is an ongoing collaboration with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University that uses the arts and the humanities to explore some of the most pressing human rights issues of our time. This series features public conversations with leading artists, academics, and activists, as well as educational and artistic partnerships with local schools and organizations. Building on the Carr Center's commitment to advancing human rights principles, and the A.R.T.'s mission to "expand the boundaries of theater," A.R.T. of Human Rights is designed to foster a new model for community education, civic engagement, and creative expression.

The reading will be followed by a panel discussion.

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