Betrayed

In 2007, George Packer’s article in The New Yorker about Iraqi interpreters who worked for American forces on the ground drew attention to a moral scandal: the interpreters were jeopardizing their lives in an atmosphere of increasing hostility with no real U.S. protection. Packer, whose The Assassin’s Gate is one of the best books written on modern Iraq, turned the article into Betrayed, an extraordinary play about three young Iraqis– two men and one woman– who risk everything for America’s promise of freedom. This complex, heart-wrenching exploration of the relationships between the Iraqis and their American supervisors is one of the most powerful and incisive works of art to come out of the war.

Winner of the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play

These performances are made possible by the W. Ford Schumann ’50 Endowment for the Arts and The Lipp Family Fund for Performing Artists.