Underground Studio
European Premiere
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH GATE THEATRE
The BODY OF AN AMERICAN
Winner of the 2013 PEN Award for Drama
by Dan O’Brien Thu 27 February – Sat 8 March Mogadishu, 1993. Paul Watson is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, 2013, Dan O’Brien is an American writer who is struggling to finish his play about ghosts. Both men live worlds apart but a chance encounter over the airwaves sparks an extraordinary friendship that sees them journey from one of the most dangerous places on earth to the depths of the human soul. Flying from Kabul to the Canadian High Arctic, The Body Of An American is an exhilarating new form of documentary drama that splices the dialogue with actual recordings and photographs by Paul Watson. Performed in an intimate studio space created in our Underground, this production places these two men’s battles – both public and private – against a backdrop of some of the world’s most iconic images of war.
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Director James Dacre Designer Alex Lowde Lighting Designer Charles Balfour Video Designer Dick Straker for Mesmer Eves 8pm Thu & Sat Matinees 2.45pm (excl. Thu 27 Feb) TICKETS Eves £17 Matinees £15
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