Palace of the End

Composed of three monologues, based on factual people and events, whose characters and words are imagined by the playwright. The first was inspired by the media circus around Lynndie England, the Army private who was convicted of torturing Iraqi prisoners; the second was inspired by the well-publicized events surrounding the death of the British weapons inspector David Kelley; the final piece was inspired by the true story of Nehrjas al Saffarh, a well-known member of the Communist party of Iraq and a mother of four, who was tortured by Saddam Hussein’s secret police in the 1970s and died when her home was bombed by the Americans in the first Gulf war.

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