Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Borderlands Theater presents "Building the Wall"

 

From: Borderlands Theater [mailto:milta@borderlandstheater.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 9:07 AM
Subject: Rehearsals start for WALL

 

 

Borderlands Theater

Our 32 Season begins!! 

 

Rehearsals for the rolling world premiere of Building the Wall began last week! We are thrilled to produce the Arizona premiere of this play by one of America's top writers of stage and screen, Robert Schenkkan (The Kentucky Cycle, Hacksaw Ridge). Director Marc David Pinate states, "This is a masterful script with layered, complicated, three dimensional characters. Im glad we've got two of Tucson's best actors on this. It's going to be intense and engaging." A timely meditation on the politics of race and privilege. Exactly what you'd expect from Borderlands Theater.  Get your tickets soon! 

 

 

Building the Wall

Written by Robert Schenkkan

Directed by Marc David Pinate

Temple of Music and Art Cabaret

September 27 - October 15, 2017

 

In the tradition of Hamilton and Angels in America, a powerful, politically charged, dystopian drama that couldn't be more timely. 

 

Written in a "white-hot fury" on the eve of the 2016 election, the stunning new play by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning dramatist Robert Schenkkan is creating a nationwide sensation.

 

Building the Wall lays out in a harrowing drama the possible consequences of Donald Trump's anti-immigration campaign rhetoric turned into federal policy. Two years from now, that policy has resulted in the mass round-up of millions of immigrants, with their incarceration overflowing into private prisons and camps reminiscent of another century. The former warden for one facility is awaiting sentencing for what happened under his watch. In a riveting interview with a historian who has come seeking the truth, he gradually reveals how the unthinkable became the inevitable, and the faceless people under his charge became the face of tragedy. 

 

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