Director Lucie Tiberghien and playwright J.T. Rogers Photo

From: Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at La Jolla's BLOOD AND GIFTS in Rehearsal

Making its West Coast premiere, Blood and Gifts tells the story of the secret spy war behind the official Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s. Spanning a decade and playing out in Washington DC, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the play offers up a slice of historical fiction laced with dark humor, as it follows the character of CIA operative Jim Warnock and his struggles to stop the Soviet Army's destruction of Afghanistan.