Article: CATF Looks Through The Outsider's Eyes

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 ...

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