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Guardians

Peter Morris

Drama
Full Length

1 man, 1 woman: 2 total
Open Stage

Winner of the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe First Award. "Compelling…sympathetic and powerful…closely observed." —NY Times. "Provocative…potent…nothing short of remarkable." —Village Voice. "Thrillingly, shatteringly effective…Morris' play sends you into a state of moral turbulence. As the Danish physicist Niels Bohr said about the theory of quantum physics, if you are not shocked by it, you have not understood it." —Sunday Times (London).

Book/Item: GUARDIANS
Book Type: DPS
Price: $8.00
ISBN/Code: 978-0-8222-2177-7

FEE: $75 per performance.

THE STORY: A tour de force for two actors, GUARDIANS presents an unflinching look at the images of war. In a series of monologues, the play tells the stories of two scandals—the infamous snapshots from Abu Ghraib prison, which depict atrocities committed by American soldiers in the name of freedom; and the strikingly similar photos of English soldiers, published by a London tabloid but later revealed as fakes. In monologues that mingle fierce irony with human warmth, a disgraced American soldier tells her story—and a clever English journalist tells how he got his.


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