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Building the Wall
"BUILDING THE WALL should be seen and shuddered over, if only to heighten our collective vigilance." - Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
BUILDING THE WALL is a MUST SEE! Shelter Theater scores the official opening of this world-premiere rollout written by the legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awardwinning playwright, Robert Schenkkan, author of The Kentucky Cycle, All the Way, By The Waters of Babylon. The show is directed by San Miguel's own Alan Jordan whom audiences will remember as having brought us House, I Am My Own Wife, Diary of a Madman, By The Waters of Babylon and last season's sell-out hit, The Tricky Part. The play runs exclusively at Shelter Theater, July 5-10, 7 pm.
Building the Wall, a disquieting response to the dawn of the Trump era, took Robert Schenkkan just one week to complete. He wrote it, he said, in a white-hot fury.
Its the very near future, and the Trump administration has carried out his campaign promise to round up and detain millions of immigrants. Now, a writer interviews the supervisor of a private prison as he awaits sentencing for carrying out the federal policy that has escalated into the unimaginable.
This riveting, harrowing and illuminating drama delivers a powerful warning and puts a human face on the inhuman, revealing how when personal accountability is denied, what seems inconceivable becomes inevitable.
Five theaters around the United States, acting with unusual speed, have already agreed to present the play in a series of productions. Shaping an early response to an embryonic presidency that has alarmed many theater artists. The play will be presented worldwide this year and Im very happy that I was able to secure the rights to produce this extraordinary play in San Miguel de Allende says producer/director Alan Jordan.
The play, set in 2019, is in the form of speculative fiction, or future history. In it, a writer interviews a prison executive awaiting sentencing for his role in a Trump administration effort to detain and deport large numbers of immigrants after a terrorist attack in the United States.
Building The Wall is now in pre production in San Miguel and is set to open July 5, 2017 at Shelter Theater and runs through July 10, the first in a series of productions set to take place at theaters around the world as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere.
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LocationShelter Theater (View)
Vicente Guerrero 4
San Miguel de Allende 37700
Mexico
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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