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Article: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is the best drama, the US critics say, so far produced about the Iraq War. Its world premiere in Los Angeles was received with nationwide accolades.(MOSAIC: Theater)
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- The Middle East
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- August 1, 2009
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A gold-plated pistol belonging to Uday Hussein, Uday's ghost and those of his victims, an existentialist tiger and a US soldier bemuse audiences viewing Rajiv Joseph's noir comedy, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.
Playwright Joseph said he was inspired to write the first scene after reading a news story shortly after the US invasion of Iraq about an American soldier shooting the Baghdad Zoo's most prized possession, a rare Bengal tiger.
What could have justified this act? How strange too that US military guards looked on passively as looters carried off artifacts of Iraq's 6,000-year history from the Baghdad National ...