Culture Project Hosts Post-Show Discussion for 'Betrayed'
By: BWW News Desk May. 09, 2008
Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) has announced that it will host The List Project for a special post-show discussion, following the Thursday, May 15 performance of its critically acclaimed World Premiere production of George Packer's play BETRAYED. Following the 8:00 p.m. performance, Packer will be joined by Kirk Johnson, founder of The List Project, a former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officer whose work to resettle Iraqis endangered by working with American organizations helped inspire Packer's play. Packer and Johnson will be joined by Ehab Al-Kuttub, an Iraqi currently working with The List Project and the evening will be moderated by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, National Editor of The Washington Post and author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
Directed by Pippin Parker, BETRAYED marks Packer's playwriting debut. The play opened in February to rave reviews and has been extended through June 28, 2008. Most recently, it won the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and was nominated for the John Gassner Award by the Outer Critics Circle. In early 2007, George Packer published an article in The New Yorker about Iraqi interpreters who jeopardized their lives on behalf of the Americans in Iraq, with little or no U.S. protection or security. The article drew national attention to the humanitarian crisis and moral scandal. Betrayed, based on Mr. Packer's interviews in Baghdad, tells the story of three young Iraqis - two men and one woman - motivated to risk everything by America's promise of freedom. BETRAYED explores the complex relationships among the Iraqis themselves, and with their American supervisor, struggling to find purpose while a country collapses around them.Videos
