Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Maybe they'll get it if the reality that has been fictionalized is refictionalized to represent reality

Anyone have a word for when something is so absurd it passes absurdity?
The plight of British residents in Guantánamo Bay, currently being considered by high court judges here, is to be heard on Capitol Hill - through the voices of actors. An updated version of the play Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, is to be presented before members of the US House of Representatives next month.

The play features Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi and longtime UK resident who was seized by the CIA in The Gambia 2002 after a tip-off from the British security services. The high court heard last week that Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, has now agreed to take up the case with the Bush administration after it was disclosed that Mr Rawi had helped MI5 in Britain before he was seized by the Americans...

The performance on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 6 is sponsored by two Democratic members of Congress, Jan Schakowsky and John Conyers. The play is based on recorded testimony from one of the detainees, the families of prisoners, their lawyers and their letters home, as well as public record statements made by American and British politicians including Mr Straw and Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary.

2 comments:

MT said...

I've heard that when they lack reconnaissance imagery for the cruise missile strikes they have a Delta Squad who come in all in black to mime the explosions and deaths.

helmut said...

Do they send an audience too?