The images of war. Snapshots from Abu Ghraib that depict atrocities committed in the name of freedom. Tabloid images of English soldiers abusing an Iraqi prisoner that are later revealed as fakes. And somewhere between England and America, between savagery and spin, lies the truth. A new play dares to imagine the truth behind the images that shocked the world.

In monologues that mingle fierce irony with human warmth, heartbreaking emotion with breathtaking intelligence, GUARDIANS offers storytelling at its simplest and most complex. A disgraced American soldier tells her story. And a clever English journalist tells how he got his.

Winner of the Fringe First Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Synopsis: In May 2004, the world first saw the infamous photos of Abu Ghraib. In the same week, a London tabloid, The Daily Mirror, published snapshots of English soldiers engaging in eerily similar atrocities. As troubling questions were raised about torture and accountability in the US Army, the British public learns that the Mirror photos were forgeries-- a newspaper known for its fierce anti-war stance has been hoaxed and humiliated, and its editor forced to resign. And somewhere amid misconduct by the English gutter press and the American army reserves, somewhere along the journalistic and military chains of command, lies the truth about Blair's and Bush's war.

Previews begin April 1st!
Preview Schedule:
Saturday, April 1 at 8pm
Sunday, April 2 at 3pm
Tuesday - Friday, April 4-7 at 8pm
Saturday, April 8 at 3pm & 8pm
Sunday, April 9 at 3pm
Monday, April 10 at 8pm Written by Peter Morris
Directed by Jason Moore
Set Design by Richard Hoover
Light Design by Garin Marschall

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