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Why Can't Art Be Instructive?

Carla Seaquist | Posted 03.16.2012 | Arts
Read More: Literature, Playwrights, Art, Playwriting, The New Yorker, Afghanistan, J. T. Rogers, London Theater, Lincoln Center, Theater, Blood and Gifts, Artists, John Lahr, Critics, Tricycle Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Afghanistan War, Arts News
Carla Seaquist

Why can't Art instruct? In addition to providing entertainment, consolation, beauty, and a reflection of our humanity by holding "the mirror up to nature," why can't Art also teach us a thing or two?

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Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan...

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Black Tulips, The Night Is Darkest Before the Dawn, Mahmud Tarzi, Public Theatre, Canopy of Stars, Colin Teevan, Edwin Starr, Soraya Tarzi, Amit Gupta, Durand?S Line, Lee Blessing, Ron Hutchinson, The Lion of Kabul, Siba Shakib, Daniel Rabin, Wikileaks, Simon Stephens, Bugles at the Gates of Jalalabad, Wood for the Fire, Tom McKay, Michael Cochrane, Malalai Anaa, Nabil Elouahabi, Now Is the Time, Shereen Martineau, Tariq Khan, Sir Mortimer Durand, Berkeley Rep, Stephen Jeffreys, Abi Morgan, Miniskirts of Kabul, Jemma Redgrave, Indhu Rubasingham, Nicolas Kent, On the Side of the Angels, Amir Abdul Rahman, David Greig, The Great Game: Afghanistan, Raad Rawi, Rick Warden, Ben Ockrent, Ahmed Zia Massoud, Mohammad Najibullah, Danny Rahim, Karl Davies, Vincent Ebrahim, Cloudia Swann, David Edgar, Amanullah Khan, Joy Wilkinson, Stanley McChrystal, Richard Bean, James Kite, Hillary Clinton, Daniel Betts, Sheena Bhattessa, Tricycle Theatre, Elphinstone, Arts News
George Heymont

If The Great Game: Afghanistan and 150 years of that country's history proves anything, it is that this miserable area of the world is a black hole that baffles armies, swallows invaders, and eats its young. No one wins.

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Theatre of the Right Damn Now -- The Great Game: Afghanistan tours the US

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Theatre, Political Theater, Berkeley Rep, The Public Theater, Afghanistan, Tricycle Theatre, Play, British Council, Theater, Skirball Center, Arts News
Lauren Gunderson

I knew very few facts about the history of our almost 10 years running war partner. Until this play. This is not historical drama, it is dramatized history.

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