Culture Project
55 Mercer St
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Betrayed
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Feb 7, 2008 – Mar 16, 2008
Mondays (8pm)
Wednesdays–Fridays (8pm)
Saturdays (3 & 8pm)
Sundays (3pm)
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- Price
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$36 / $61 premium seating
George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five years. Betrayed follows three such interpreters who are hopeful and eager to work for the Americans following the fall of Saddam. They risk (and, in one case, lose) their lives to aid a military operation that not only abandons them, but wrongfully vilifies them in the nightmare of bureaucratic security. "I don't want complicated answers — complicated answers mean you're lying," spits an American guard, summing up the entire problem with his country's failure in Iraq.
