Last night I went to New York Theatre Workshop’s Opening of ‘Aftermath’ by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. ‘Aftermath’ is a very poignant and disturbing play about the Iraq war. The dialogue came directly from Iraqi refugee interviews held in Jordan. Theatre is such an amazing place to wrestle with perspective and reality, and this piece hits deep in the gut. It is clearly bruising yet strangely uplifting, in the way stories of survival amidst terrible tragedy do. Making it harder and more difficult to experience the theatrical piece was the underlying truth that each character’s tragedy was in reality wrought by our country’s war.
musings of a subway performer and lifelong troubadour