(Kate Taylor’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/10; one of the plays from The Great Game, “A Canopy of Stars,” by Simon Stephens is included in Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays, edited by Karen Malpede, Michael Messina, and Bob Shuman, foreword by Chris Hedges, coming from Northwestern University Press in March. View the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Acts-War-Afghanistan-Seven-Plays/dp/0810127326/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294708448&sr=1-1.)
The Tricycle Theater will present two special performances of “The Great Game: Afghanistan,” its seven-hour marathon of short plays about Afghanistan’s history of foreign occupations, for the Pentagon on Feb. 10 and 11, the theater announced. The performances will take place at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington for an audience of military and government officials, service members, veterans and their families.