STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m.

Elliott Bay's Drama Book Group, Stages, meets once a month to read, enjoy and discuss great plays and dramatic works, contemporary and classic, from the U.S. and around the world. In The Overwhelming, J.T. Rogers has written a play that is both a brilliantly crafted piece of writing and a tense, suspenseful exploration of one of the great human tragedies of our time. A middle-aged academic leaps at the chance to go to Rwanda to write about an old college classmate, who has in the intervening years has specialized in treating Tutsi children stricken by AIDS. But when he arrives with his family in Kigali in the fall of 1994, they slowly, then urgently, become enmeshed in the tension and terror, the professional risks and personal betrayals, that ultimately mark the start of a genocidal war—a horror that they can sense but cannot comprehend or control.

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