Lili Taylor Joins Long Wharf's TORTURE TEAM, 1/16

The cast is finalized for Long Wharf Theatre's staged reading of an adaptation of Torture Team, by Philippe Sands, featuring Vanessa Redgrave.
 
This special event takes place on Sunday, January 16 on Stage II at 7 p.m. Tickets are $75.

Lili Taylor will join the production, directed by Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein. Taylor had previously been seen on Broadway in Three Sisters. Taylor is also known for her work in the films High Fidelity, The Notorious Bettie Page, The Haunting, I Shot Andy Warhol, Say Anything, Born on the Fourth of July, and Mystic Pizza.
 
Jeff McCarthy, Jay O. Sanders and Harris Yulin had been previously announced.

An All the President's Men for the 21st century, we follow international lawyer Philippe Sands on a journalistic adventure, tracking down Bush administration officials to find the truth about Guantanamo Bay - did the United States government sanction torture in the wake of 9/11? This true story of a government at odds with its moral compass uses Sands' book "Torture Team" as a basis. The reading also uses video clips from Judgment at Nuremberg, "24," presidential addresses and interviews, contemporary journalism, and material from Murat Kurnaz's Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo, a memoir chronicling his unjust imprisonment at the hands of U.S. authorities.

For more information about the event, or to purchase tickets, visit www.longwharf.org or call 203-787-4282.

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