March 10

A Jew and a Muslim share a few laughs as they fall from the World Trade Centre. That’s just one of five plays on display at a festival of Middle Eastern and Arab plays in California; among the participating writers is Naomi Wallace, whose monologue The Retreating World was part of the first Wrecking Ball.

Here’s a Wallace primer. Read about her plays. Here she considers the question: Do you consider yourself to be a political writer?

Crimp’s Women of Trachis, reviewed. (See also March 8.)

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