New York Theatre Workshop, Aftermath, a sneak preview : Works & process at the Guggenheim
Jessica Blank (Author), Erik Jensen (Author), Mark Russell (Moderator), Fajer Al-Kaisi (Actor), Leila Buck (Actor), Demosthenes Chrysan (Actor), Daoud Heidami (Actor), Tala Ashe (Actor), Mary Sharp Cronson (Producer), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Excerpts from Aftermath: the Iraqi refugee project, are interspersed with panel discussion with the play's creators. Blank and Jensen discuss the genesis of the project; the challenges presented by political theater; how they conducted interviews with Iraqi refugees in Jordan and adapted the transcripts into the play's script; their personal reactions to what they heard; what people can do to help the refugees; the body language of the interviewees; their decision to make their translator a character; the methodology of documentary theater; their play The exonerated and other past projects; what they hope audiences will take from the play
DVD Video, English, 2009