How about an evening of the theatre in Baghdad?

Join us today online on Tuesday, March 11^th 5pm-7pm AST as actors at the University of Baghdad link up with the University of Iowa to present Book Wings, a marathon of 6 specially commissioned short plays, in Arabic and English, on the theme of “courage,” including works by prominent Iraqi journalist and playwright Hassab Allah Yahya, David Kranes, long-time artistic director of Robert Redford’s Sundance Playwrights Lab, and Catherine Filloux, co-founder of Theatre Without Borders.

Live digital videoconferencing plus live Q&A with actors, directors, and playwrights.

Watch online and tweet questions and comments @UIIWP #bookw.

 

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