OVERVIEW
“GROUNDBREAKING… I’m tempted to call it the most original drama written so far about the Iraq war, but why sell the work short?
The imagination behind it is way too thrillingly genre-busting to be confined within such a limiting category.”
- Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
Audience and critical buzz brought national attention to this explosive world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre last spring.
Now enhanced for the Taper stage, this remarkable play throws two homesick soldiers, a tormented Iraqi and a brooding tiger together into a revelatory situation that is both hysterical and macabre, soul-wrenching and lyrical.
Directed by Tony-nominee Moisés Kaufman (Broadway sensations I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations), this production dares you not to look away from its honest and hauntingly theatrical depiction of the aftermath of war.
CREDITS
Sponsor
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo has been selected as an NEA Outstanding New American Play as part of the NEA New Play Development Program, hosted by Arena Stage. It is also a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.
