What I Heard About Iraq - Portland

On Monday March 19th, Portland will join a multitude of cities participating in a worldwide reading of Simon Levy's WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ to commemorate and protest the 4th anniversary of the invasion of that country.

["What I Heard About Iraq" is from the article by Eliot Weinberger published in the London Review of Books (Feb 3, 2005).]

The show uses direct quotes from politicians, military chiefs, soldiers, and Iraqi citizens to tell the human story behind the US led invasion of Iraq. Playwright Levy says the play is "neither fiction nor speculation; it takes audiences into the war and confronts them with the human drama, the human toll. It is not about history, or about something going on 'over there.'"

WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ

Monday, March 19

Blackfish Gallery
420 NW 9th
Portland Oregon
7:00 & 9:30

Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

Because space is limited reservations are encouraged

Send an email to rutabega@pacifier.com with your name, telephone number, time of performance, and number of people in your party. You will receive a telephone confirmation.

Reservations will be held until 10 minutes before the performance.

WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ was read in forty-five cities around the world on March 20, 2006, and won the prestigious 2006 Edinburgh Fringe First Award.

Critics have called the show "chilling," "impassioned," and "dynamic," with the New York Times writing, "The play is less a drama than an indictment, an exercise in controlled outrage...The audiences' anger flashes back through its applause at the end."

Space for the production was donated by Blackfish Gallery as a part of its ongoing mission of pacifism and protest against the war in Iraq, and is co-sponsored by Readers Theatre Repertory and Veterans for Peace.