"Another Life" by Karen Malpede March 28, 2013

George Bartenieff plays an out-sized captain of industry who privatizes and is ultimately undone by state-sponsored torture in "Another Life," written and directed by Karen Malpede, a surreal play that is based on real post-9/11 events. The play, written in a fast-paced lyric language, is based on research, interviews, testimonies, the words of torturers and tortured. It has been widely praised by experts in the field of human rights for its inventiveness, power and ability to create empathy. Theater for the New City will present the piece March 28 to April 21, accompanied by "A Festival of Conscience," a series of free post-play dialogues and panels with prominent lawyers, writers and activists, and readings of Malpede's play, "Extreme Whether," a story of heroic climate scientists facing censorship.