April 26th @ 8pm

Ian Thal hosts a staged reading of his play, "Total War", at Cambridge's Outpost 186.

"Total War" is a five-act play set at a Catholic university where the student newspaper has published a Holocaust denial advertisement. While faculty and staff attempt to show solidarity with the small Jewish community on campus, an anarchist-cell using the nom-de-guerre of “Total War” begins a campaign of guerrilla art attacks before a predictable dialogue on free speech and religious pluralism can begin.

"Total War" was recently named a semi-finalist in the 2009 Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition. The reading is an opportunity both for the author to develop the play through listening and for an audience to experience a stripped-down version of a work-in-progress. A talk-back will follow the reading.

Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, MA

ianthal.blogspot.com/2009/04...war.html