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Syracuse University Drama
Embedded
Part of Syracuse University’s (Syracuse, NY) College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Drama Department offers BFA degrees in acting, musical theatre, design/technical theatre and stage management. Housed in the same theatre complex as the professional company Syracuse Stage, the department combines outstanding training with a variety of performing opportunities. Previous appearances at the Quaker Meeting House include The Laramie Project (2004) and A Remarkable Story (2005).
Tim Robbins's Embedded is a stinging and hilarious indictment of the Bush administration's mad march to war. Alternately satiric (neo-cons, lapdog reporters) and compassionate (soldiers, families, innocent Iraqis), Embedded examines the folly and human cost of Bush's war.
Performances: 
7th to 12th August
,18:15 to 19:45
Price: 
£7.00 (£5.00)
Book tickets on the Fringe website
Quaker Faith and Practice
Quaker Faith and Practice
24.55
In place of a process which trusts technology and mistrusts humanity, we must learn and live out a process that builds trust between people and their institutions... From the earliest days of Friends, we have known that safety cannot be defended in our own strength, but only in God's... And we don't have to do it with tools of our own fashioning, ever more elaborate technological juggling acts, ever more devastatingly destructive bombs...
Mary Lou Leavitt, 1987
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Relentless assault

Submitted by reviews on Tue, 2006-08-08 14:46.

Find your way through the “Fog of war”. The students of Syracuse University Drama Department will take you on relentless assault on the US military and political establishment. They weave together stories of soldiers fighting in Iraq and journalists embedded with front line troops, in a show that combines satire and compassion. They lampoon the platitudes, clichés and truth bending employed by the US government between October2002 and June 2003.

Expect strong military language. Expect evocative poetic language. Learn the subtle difference between Levi Strauss and Leo Strauss. A comment from a member of the audience: “It is important this is on stage. These things need to be cried out so people know what is happening.” It’s a show that gets you asking questions about the wisdom and folly of war and how it is reported.

Jane Angel

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