cruel & unusual: a provocation of short plays on the subject of TORTURE

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Date:

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Time:

10:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Event Type:

Other

Organizer/Author:

Erin Blackwell

Location Details:

Exit Theater, Stage Left. 156 Eddy Street, btw. Mason and Taylor, San Francisco

Suspend your disbelief that torture is official U.S. policy.

Share a self-medicating doctor's memory of sunsets on Gitmo.

Learn what to do with a detainee's corpse.

Watch dedicated Pentagon staffers sort photos by degree of visible damage.

Guess who's telling the truth: the guard or the inmate.

cruel & unusual abides by the Geneva Conventions for the treatment of audiences.

I reserve the right, as Commander-in-Chief and as head of the unitary executive, to do what I need to do to defend America. George W. Bush, signing statement, Detainee Treatment Act 2005

"Following their president's lead, the American people seem to be developing a tolerance, even a taste, for torture." Alfred McCoy, A Question of Torture (2006)

No late seating. Not suitable for children.

For more information: http://www.cruelandunusual.zoomshare.com/0...

Added to the calendar on Fri, Aug 18, 2006 10:50AM

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