Lincoln Center Theater presents BLOOD AND GIFTS, J.T. Rogers, directed by Bartlett Sher at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street with a first performance on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8:00 pm. Opening night is Monday, November 21, 2011 at 6:45 pm.
The cast includes Michael Aronov, Jeremy Davidson, Robert Hogan, Jefferson Mays, ANDRÉS MUNAR, Rudy Mungaray, J. Paul Nicholas, Paul Niebanck, John Procaccino, Liv Rooth, Gabriel Ruiz, Pej Vahdat, Andrew Weems, and Bernard White
Commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, and presented last year at The National Theatre, BLOOD AND GIFTS tells the story of the secret spy war behind the official Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s. Spanning a decade and playing out in Washington DC, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, the play follows CIA operative Jim Warnock (to be played by Jeremy Davidson) as he struggles to stop the Soviet Army's destruction of Afghanistan. The ground constantly shifts for Jim and his counterparts in the KGB and British and Pakistani secret service as the political and personal alliances between the men keeps changing. And as the outcome of the entire Cold War comes into play, Jim and a larger-than-life Afghan warlord find the only person they can trust is each other.
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