Building the wall : the play and commentary / Robert Schenkkan ; with afterwords by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Douglas S. Massey, and Julian E. Zelizer.

1st ed.

117 p. ; 22 cm.

Written in “a white heat” fury following the November 2016 election, Schenkkan’s Building the Wall imagines a dystopia impacted by President Trump’s border and immigration policies. It’s the near future and millions of undocumented immigrants have been detained in overflowing prisons. Now, a writer interrogates the director of a private prison as he awaits sentencing for carrying out the federal policy that has escalated into the unimaginable. This riveting and illuminating drama delivers a powerful warning and puts a human face on the inhuman, revealing how, when personal accountability is denied, what seems inconceivable becomes inevitable. (University of Texas at Austin - http://theatredance.utexas.edu/event/building-wall)

1m, 1w.

9781628728774 (hc.)

D S3241bu 2017