BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO

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BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO
Submitted by sheilavand on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 8:26am
Event Date: 
04/14/2010 - 8:00pm - 05/30/2010 - 11:00pm
Event location
Address: 
Mark Taper Forum 135 N. Grand Ave.
City or Town: 
Los Angeles
State or Province: 
CA

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The most original drama written so far about the Iraq  war.  Moisés Kaufman’s direction allows us to appreciate Joseph’s  wonderful comic audacity and diffuse sensibility. Vibrant staging and a versatile cast.”
- Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times - more online

Audience  and critical buzz brought national attention  to this explosive world premiere at the  Kirk Douglas Theatre last spring.

Now  enhanced for the Taper stage, this remarkable  play throws two homesick soldiers, a  tormented Iraqi and a brooding tiger together into  a revelatory situation that is both hysterical and  macabre, soul-wrenching and lyrical.

Directed  by Tony-nominee Moisés Kaufman (Broadway sensations I Am  My Own Wife and 33  Variations), this production dares you not to  look away from its honest and hauntingly theatrical  depiction of the aftermath of war.


Mark Taper Forum
at the Music Center
downtown Los Angeles

135 N. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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More About the Show

Read Rajiv Joseph’s “Playwrights on Writing” article from  Sunday’s Los Angeles Times.


By
Rajiv Joseph
Directed by
Moisés Kaufman
Scenic Design by
Derek McLane
Costume Design by
David Zinn
Lighting Design by
David Lander
Sound Design by
Cricket S. Myers
Music by
Kathryn Bostic

Sponsor
Bengal  Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo has been selected as an NEA Outstanding New American  Play as part of the NEA New Play Development Program, hosted by Arena Stage. It  is also a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New  American Plays Award.