THE SQUARE

THE SQUARE is a full-length, five-character (2M, 3W) play about the Sept 09 events in Nisour Square, Baghdad and one veteran's struggle to do more than bear witness to them. It's also a play about the Iraq war and its effect on five people: a veteran, his wife, their best friend, a journalist, and an Iraqi woman in a lunch counter in Washington, DC.
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THE SQUARE

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  • Paul Vintner:
    21 Jul. 2017
    An effective drama which uses the 2007 massacre in Nisour Square as the catalyst behind a series of choices made by a recently returned veteran and how it affects those around him. It refreshingly doesn't offer any easy answers as it analyzes how people come to terms with a war overseas through ambivalence, approval/disapproval, cynicism, guilt, and willful ignorance. Realistic and tragic, the play highlights the startling disconnect between the general population and people living in/from a war zone. You may feel as conflicted as the protagonist by the end, but you'll be better off for it.

Development History

  • Reading
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    Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts, Brandeis University
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    2017
  • Reading
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    Brandeis University, directed by Guy Ben-Aharon
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    2016