Truth and Treason

Run: September 8th – September 19th 2009, Monument-National, Montreal 

Playwright: Rahul Varma

Directed By: Arianna Bardesono

Assistant Director: Maya Dhawan

Cast: Christine Aubin Khalifah, Karim Babin, Abdelhafour Elaaziz, David Francis, Sarah Garton Stanley,  Alex Ivanovici, Jean-Moïse Martin, Warona Setshwaelo, Ivan Smith, Charley Hausknost

Creative Team: Sound Designer: Jesse Ash, Set Designer: Romain Fabre, Costume Designer: Ève-line Leduc, Make-up: Natasha Rosdol, Lighting Designer: Kirsten Watt, Stage Manager: Kathryn Cleveland,  Assistant Stage Manager: Michelle Smushkevitch, Production and PR: Stephanie Lambert

At a checkpoint in Iraq, a 10-year-old girl named Ghazal is shot by an unidentified U.S. soldier. Ghazal needs a blood transfusion but is denied from crossing the checkpoint because her father is classified as a terrorist by the US. Truth and Treason invites us to discover the real truth behind the war on terror…

Photo by Terry Hughes