Theatre Returns to Iraq

With all the hub-bub and self-congratulations surrounding the awards season, I'd like to shift focus to one play in particular that is doing something no one in New York (or the U.S. for that matter) would dare to do. The play is called The Intensive Care Unit and it is the first production to be staged at Baghdad's National Theater since the war began.

"The cast includes Sunnis, Shiites and a Christian. The actors are unpaid and most are unemployed. Performances are held only during the day, because the city turns into a ghost town after dark. There is no entrance fee. Audience members, most of whom are fellow actors or friends of cast members, are frisked for weapons and explosives as they enter."

Visit the link to the full article, 'Baghdad's Theater of War' by Washington Post columnist, Ernesto Londono.