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På den polska landsbygden, 1920, möts Isaac och Nikolai för första gången – då som menig och kapten i Röda Armén. Sjuttio år senare spionerar en KGB-agent på en kvinna och blir blixtförälskad. 2010 kraschar ett plan i Smolensk, ombord finns större delen av den polska regeringen. I Rajiv Josephs episka och hisnande pjäs från 2017 får vi under ett spann av nittio år följa åtta människors livsöden, sammanvävda av historien, myter och konspirationsteorier.

I denna reading medverkade bland andra den irländska skådespelaren Fintan McKeown, tidigare känd från Game of Thrones och Star Trek: Voyager. 

Rajiv Joseph debuterade 2006 och har själv uttryckt att hans treåriga tjänstgöring i Fredskåren i Senegal hade stor inverkan på att han blev dramatiker. 2010 var han finalist för Pulitzer-priset i drama med sin pjäs Bengal tiger at the Baghdad Zoo och 2015 vann han Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award för Guards at the Taj.

Describe the night, som till del bygger på verkliga personer och händelser, fick sin urpremiär i december 2017 på Atlantic Theater Company i New York, till pressens hyllningar:

“An epic drama of enormous scope. Rich & fascinating.”
— Steven Suskin, The Huffington Post

“Thrilling! Describe the Night feels like the next frontier!” 
— Zachary Stewart, Theatermania

“It is its own vivid, perfectly paced patchwork of memory, lies, and revelations."
— Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast

“Describe the night is that rare must-see in the theater! Rajiv peppers his narrative with jaw-dropping coincidences, truth-telling serums, misidentified children & infidelities.”
— Robert Hofler, The Wrap

Richard Asker, Eric Ernerstedt, Ingela Lundh, Björn Lönner, Fintan McKeown, EvaMaria Oria, Lucy Ter-Berg. 

In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years later, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk. Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic play by Rajiv Joseph (Atlantic’s Guards at the Taj, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) traces the stories of eight men and women connected by history, myth and conspiracy theories.

Among the cast for this reading was Irish actor Fintan McKeown,  known from Game of Thrones and Star Trek: Voyager. 

Rajiv Joseph debuted as a playwright in 2006 and has stated that the three years he served in the Peace Corps in Senegal had a big impact on him becoming a writer. In 2010 he was a Pulitzer Price finalist for Bengal tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and five years later he received the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award for his play Guards at the Taj.

Describe the night is based on actual historical events and people and had its world premiere in December 2017 at Atlantic Theater Company in New York. 

“An epic drama of enormous scope. Rich & fascinating.”
— Steven Suskin, The Huffington Post

“Thrilling! Describe the Night feels like the next frontier!” 
— Zachary Stewart, Theatermania

“It is its own vivid, perfectly paced patchwork of memory, lies, and revelations."
— Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast

“Describe the night is that rare must-see in the theater! Rajiv peppers his narrative with jaw-dropping coincidences, truth-telling serums, misidentified children & infidelities.”
— Robert Hofler, The Wrap

Richard Asker, Eric Ernerstedt, Ingela Lundh, Björn Lönner, Fintan McKeown, EvaMaria Oria, Lucy Ter-Berg.