WATER BOARD: a play about torture
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| Type: | |
| Network: | Global |
| Date: | Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
| Time: | 8:00pm - 9:45pm |
| Location: | YMCA Theater |
| Street: | 820 Massachusetts Avenue |
| City/Town: | Cambridge, MA |
Description
The world premiere!
The original play WATER BOARD: a play about torture aims to create awareness and discussion about waterboarding as a form of torture.
Through live action performance, integrated video, original music and dialogue with the audience, this breathtaking show explores the contemporary politics and history of simulated drowning. The play engages audience members in a conversation that struggles with what it means to live under a government that practices and condones torture.
Performers Nadeem Mazen and Stephanie Skier will waterboard each other during the course of the show.
Exploring the eerily whimsical linguistic connotations of the recently coined term “waterboarding”, performers play on slip’n’slides and toss beach balls while singing about “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
an Institute for Intermediate Studies production
co-sponsored by the MIT Social Justice Cooperative
proceeds support Amnesty International's Counter Terror with Justice campaign
written and directed by Stephanie Skier
created and performed by Nadeem Mazen and Stephanie Skier
with original music by the Kominas
Tickets available at the door or online at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/70883
$20 general admission
$8 students / seniors / low-income
additional donations appreciated
The original play WATER BOARD: a play about torture aims to create awareness and discussion about waterboarding as a form of torture.
Through live action performance, integrated video, original music and dialogue with the audience, this breathtaking show explores the contemporary politics and history of simulated drowning. The play engages audience members in a conversation that struggles with what it means to live under a government that practices and condones torture.
Performers Nadeem Mazen and Stephanie Skier will waterboard each other during the course of the show.
Exploring the eerily whimsical linguistic connotations of the recently coined term “waterboarding”, performers play on slip’n’slides and toss beach balls while singing about “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
an Institute for Intermediate Studies production
co-sponsored by the MIT Social Justice Cooperative
proceeds support Amnesty International's Counter Terror with Justice campaign
written and directed by Stephanie Skier
created and performed by Nadeem Mazen and Stephanie Skier
with original music by the Kominas
Tickets available at the door or online at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/70883
$20 general admission
$8 students / seniors / low-income
additional donations appreciated
Other Information
- Guests are allowed to bring friends to this event.
Event Type
This is an open event. Anyone can join and invite others to join.