The War Plays Project
The Los Angeles Theater Community Responds to the War in Iraq
Upcoming Events
Month 8 -- 26 October 2008 -- War & Religion
Is God really on our side? Come at 5pm for a discussion of war and religion -- strange bedfellows that have laid down together throughout the ages. Stay for a special performance of "Nihil Obstat -- Nothing Stands in the Way." At Studio/Stage, 520 N. Western Av.
Additional October events:
Is God really on our side? Come at 5pm for a discussion of war and religion -- strange bedfellows that have laid down together throughout the ages. Stay for a special performance of "Nihil Obstat -- Nothing Stands in the Way." At Studio/Stage, 520 N. Western Av.
Additional October events:
- Saturday, October 11 -- Writing about the War Workshop with playwright EM Lewis in Ashland, OR as part of the Ashland New Plays Festival
- Thursday, October 30 -- Writing about the War Workshop with playwright EM Lewis at Cal State Fullerton, in Susan Merson's Advanced Playwriting Class
Month 9 -- November 2008 -- Genocide
Armenia. Germany. Cambodia. Bosnia. Rwanda. Mass killing -- the attempt to utterly eradicate the "enemy" -- has tracked its bloody way through the 20th century. We'll discuss the causes and effects of genocide. Stay for a special performance of "Song of Extinction" by EM Lewis. At [Inside] the Ford.
Month 10 -- December 2008 -- That War, and This One (Vietnam/Iraq)
Come and talk about our foreign wars -- Vietnam and Iraq -- with writers who have engaged the particular challenges of these wars in their work. At [Inside] the Ford.
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Other WPP event topics in the planning stages include:
- War Music(al)
- Homeland Security?
- Embodying War (Actors Speak)
- War Monologue Slam
- Soldiers' Stories
- War & Protest
