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Article: CATF Looks Through The Outsider's Eyes
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- The Washington Post
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- July 16, 2008
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The image of the outsider haunts this year's Contemporary
American Theater Festival. The festival's five productions --
artful and engrossing, for the most part -- deal with topics as
different as African history, the U.S. social hierarchy and pig
farming. But in each of the plays, which run through Aug. 3, an
intruder catches a glimpse of a dangerous, or fascinating, self-
contained world.
The theme resounds most powerfully in "The Overwhelming," J. T.
Rogers's drama about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Directed by the
festival's producing director, Ed Herendeen, this richly woven piece
unfurls with the taut pace of a thriller. Rogers builds his tale
around three outsiders: American ...