Description - Building the Wall by Robert Schenkkan
Like Hamilton, Angels in America, and The Vagina Monoloques, a powerful, poliltically charged drama that speaks directly to the present moment—the dawn of the Trump era and the implications of his anti-immigration rhetoric turned into policy.
Publication is part of a nationwide event, with the play going into production instantly and opening in a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere in five theaters across the country:
Fountain Theatre in LA (3/18/17)
Curious Theater in Denver (4/4/17)
Forum Theater in Washington, DC, 4/27–5/7, moving to its Silver Springs, MD, stage 5/18
Borderlands Theater in Tucson (February 2018)
City Theatre in Miami (9/27-10/8/17)
Other theaters that aren't part of the NNPN will also stage the play, including:
Adobe Rose Theater in Santa Fe (date TK)
New World Stages in New York City (previews starting 5/12/17; opening 5/21/17)
The play and its nationwide rolling premiere have garnered a NY Times article and it will receive much more publicity after each opening:
Robert Schenkkan is the real deal: winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for Best Play, he is the author of All the Way, which was made into the movie starring Bryan Cranston, and co-screenwriterof Hacksaw Ridge; he is extremely well-connected culturally and in the media and has a practiced stage presence.
Dystopian fiction is immensely popular now, and the dystopian premise of this play addresses the national mood.
Includes essays from three noted historians on: the real purpose of the border wall, our dark history of restictionism in immigration, and the tradition of political protest in the arts for the last century.
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