[Adta] NYC area folks--Please note, come, and disseminate!

[kbradley at wam.umd.edu]

I especially want to let the NYC area folks know about the piece I am working on
for the NY Fringe Festival. FEAR UP: Stories from Baghdad and Guantanamo draws
on blogs, healdines, articles, and first-person accounts of war and torture.
That sounds like a dreary evening, but there are also such stories of humor and
perspective and the overcoming nature of the human spirit.

Details:


The Democracy Cell Project Presents



Fear Up: Stories from Baghdad and Guantanamo



The New York International; Fringe Festival – Fringe

A Production of the Present Company



August 11 at 7:00, 15 at 4:00, 16 at 11 pm, 17 at 9:15 pm, and 23 at 9:15 pm

Dance New Amsterdam/ 280 Broadway at Chambers, NYC



All Tickets: $15. For tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org or call

In New York: (212) 279-4488 or Outside New York: 1-888-FringeNYC



The Democracy Cell Project is proud to present Fear Up: Stories from Baghdad and
Guantanamo as part of the 10th annual New York International Fringe Festival.
Fear Up will be performed at Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway at Chambers on
August 11 at 7 pm, August 15 at 4 pm, August 16 at 11pm, August 17 at 9:15 pm,
and August 23 at 9:15 pm.



Has Fear Up come into your life? In this brief (75 minute) and compelling
docudrama, words are torn directly from the pages of Iraq, Afghanistan,
Guantanamo, and the United States. Ten actors playing twenty characters,
including prisoners, interrogators, military and civilians, weave together a
searing tale of torture and abuse and the ferocious resilience of the human
spirit. (The title comes from the U.S. Army Field Manual 34-52, Intelligence
Interrogation section. It is a torture technique currently used at Guantanamo,
and on all of us.)



The show features a multi-ethnic cast of professional actors from the New York
area, under the direction of Joe Brady. Brady is a writer and director based in
New York City. He holds an MFA in Directing from CUNY and is a graduate of
Second City, Chicago.  His work has been produced in New York Chicago, and
Baltimore. The piece was compiled and adapted by Marietta Hedges, an assistant
professor in the drama department at Catholic University in Washington, DC, and
by Karen Bradley, associate professor of dance at the University of Maryland.



The performers in the piece contributed to the work as well and include: Farah
Bala, Johanna Cox, Maboud Ebramizadeh, Marietta Hedges, H. Clark Kee, Charles
Linshaw, Shanti Elise Prasad, Nicole Shalhoub, Alok Tewari, and Sorab Wadia.
(Hedges, Kee, Linshaw, and Shalhoub appear courtesy of Actor’s Equity
Association). Marla Shaffer is the Stage Manager.



The Democracy Cell Project is an online teaching and learning community, with a
blog, a forum, a chat room, and resources for daily activism. We are dedicated
to preserving and increasing the connection between ordinary Americans and our
government, especially the connection that our forefathers cherished: 
government of the people, by the people and for the people.



I also want to invite you to the opening night performance talk-back, with the
cast and compilers of the piece and two special guests:  Raed Jarrar, Director
of the Iraq Project for Global Exchange, who will have returned the day before
from Amman Jordan where he is meeting with members of the Iraqi Parliament and
leaders who helped draft the 28-point Reconciliation Plan and Code Pink, and a
soon-to-be-named representative of the Center for Constitutional Rights,
recently returned from Guantanamo.

The post-show discussion will be held at Spaghetti Western restaurant, 59 Reade
St (a half block from the theatre) beginning at approximately 8:45 pm.