This week, "Theater Talk" welcomes journalist and playwright George Packer, who discusses his critically acclaimed Iraq drama "Betrayed," now playing through June 16 at Culture Project (55 Mercer Street, SoHo).
This episode of "Theater Talk" will air on CUNY TV (Channel 75 in NYC) on Saturday, June 7 at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, June 8 at 12:30 p.m. and Monday, June 9 at 7:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.
Directed by
Pippin Parker and based on Packer's 2007 article in the New Yorker about Iraqi interpreters who jeopardized their lives on behalf of the Americans in Iraq, Betrayed marks Packer's playwriting debut.
George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author, most recently, of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, which won several awards and was named by The New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2005. He has published two other works of non-fiction, The Village of Waiting (1988), a memoir about his years in the Peace Corps in West Africa and Blood of the Liberals (2000), a three-generational political history, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He has also published two novels, The Half Man (1991) and Central Square (1998) and is the editor of The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World (2003). His articles, essays and reviews on foreign affairs, American politics and literature have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Dissent and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.
Betrayed plays the following performance schedule: Monday at 8 p.m., Wednesday – Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are priced at $35 - $60 and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or visiting
www.cultureproject.org. Culture Project is located at 55 Mercer Street (at Broome) in the heart of SoHo.
"Theater Talk" is hosted by New York Post theatre columnist
Michael Riedel and producer
Susan Haskins. For more info visit
www.theatertalk.org.
