WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ Now playing every Thursday at 8:00 PM until December 15th The Fountain Theatre 5060 Fountain Ave Los Angeles CA 90029
Call (323-663-1525) for ticket information <http://www.fountaintheatre.com/> www.fountaintheatre.com Review of "WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ" by Frank Dorrel "WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ" is the most IMPORTANT & MOVING play I have ever seen! Go see it as soon as you can at The Fountain Theatre in Hollywood (323-663-1525). This amazing play is very timely as it exposes many of the LIES about this "so called war in Iraq" that our government has been waging. I saw it last night and was affected more then I could have imagined. This play puts together the chronology of U.S. involvement in the war while, at the same time, allows the audience to understand and feel the tremendous suffering the Iraqi people have been subjected to. I believe this very well written and superbly preformed presentation has the ability to reach into people's hearts and minds and will motivate many to take action. The five actors in this play were brilliant and went beyond themselves in bringing the message to the audience. All of the quotes were real, whether they were coming from George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Tony Blair, American soldiers or from Iraqi citizens who have experienced the death of their loved ones and the devastation of their country. When the play ended, director Simon Levy invited the audience to participate in sharing their feelings and thoughts with the actors about what they had just experienced and about the war itself. I give my highest praise to Simon Levy, to the actors, Marc Casabani, Darcy Halsey, Tony Pasqualini, Bernadette Speakes and Ryun Yu and to Eliot Weinberger, who wrote the article "What I Heard About Iraq" from which this play was based. "WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ" is scheduled to close on December 15th. I would like to see it playing in theatres all over the country. The Fountain Theatre is very unique and intimate, but has less then 100 seats. In the future, I would like to see this production playing at a much larger theatre here in Los Angeles or have this run at The Fountain extended until this war is over. Questions ~ Email assistant director Riley Steiner at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Others Reviews of "WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ" LOS ANGELES TIMES - "SUPERB! STUNNING! COMPELLING! ... FIERCE IN ITS ANTIWAR BLOW... Levy's razor-sharp staging features superb production elements [with a] KEENLY CALIBRATED ENSEMBLE... Levy is clearly a man on a mission, and his passionately antiwar play is unapologetically biased. But, then, the sheer aggregate of disaster in Iraq, recapitulated here, makes a compelling case against a mounting misadventure that President Bush labeled, with no conscious irony, a 'catastrophic success.'... AN OFTEN STUNNING DISTILLATION OF AMERICAN HUBRIS AND DENIAL, 'WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ' SHOULD BE VIEWED WITH AN OPEN MIND, REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL AFFILIATION." - F. Kathleen Foley L.A. WEEKLY - RECOMMENDED! - GO! "Director Simon Levy smoothly orchestrates his adaptation [with] five VERSATILE ACTORS... THE WORK TAKES ON AN URGENT LIFE ALL ITS OWN AS WE RE-EXPERIENCE THE ADMINISTRATION'S LUNATIC HUBRIS.- Steven Mikulan VARIETY - "EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMERS! SPINE-CHILLING!... Their fluidly directed interplay encompasses overlapping dialogue as they pitch lines to each other with the precision of baseball stars... A CRY OF OUTRAGE delivered by five actors, exposing the deceptive strategies and heartless acts of violence perpetrated by the Bush administration." - Joel Hirschhorn AMERICAN RADIO NETWORK (KCLA, KLAS, KPRO-AM, KMAX-AM) CRITIC'S PICK! "A MUST SEE EVENT!... Simon Levy has adapted this brilliantly and directs as well... SENSATIONAL five member ensemble... performing various roles they vividly bring to life... IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW IS, THE PLAY IS CONTEMPLATIVE, PROVOKING, SMART, CLEVER, WITTY, AND FASCINATING." - Gerri Garner BACK STAGE WEST - "EMOTIONAL!... An effective survey of the tragic bumbling, self-delusion, and dishonesty around the American invasion of Iraq... Levy uses music, still photographs, and video to add dramatic texture to the cascade of quotes, which are drawn from government and military officials, as well as from rank-and-file American soldiers and Iraqi civilians... A RALLYING CRY to end the war quickly, but few of our responsible leaders seem willing to adopt that position anytime soon. Instead we are forced to look back in sadness at a tragedy for which, unfortunately, we all bear some responsibility and look ahead with trepidation to the final acts of this epic drama." - Hoyt Hilsman The Fountain Theatre 5060 Fountain Ave Los Angeles CA 90029 323-663-1525 www.fountaintheatre.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. 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