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The Bone Bridge
Date and Time
Wednesday Oct 4, 2017 Saturday Oct 7, 2017
10/4/2017 7:00pm
Location
UNH Johnson Theatre
Fees/Admission
$8 - $16 Purchase tickets at http://unharts.com
Contact Information
Christine Peabody 862-7222
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BOSNIA, 1990s: A charismatic leader excites his followers with myths and fantasies of their past greatness, and promises that they will be great again when they take their country back. They must rid themselves of the Muslims who, he avers with no evidence, are establishing an Islamic republic, and who just don't belong in the land. This rhetoric leads to the worse genocide since the Nazi-perpetrated slaughter. Trina Davies' play, by turns searing and morbidly funny, tells how a handful of Bosnians, victims and perpetrators alike, try to mend their lives in the aftermath of the genocide and associated atrocities. What happens when two Bosnians, taking refuge years later in Canada, spot a concentration camp guard and torturer in the line at Home Depot? What happens when a Muslim judge, having spent terrible years in a concentration camp, makes her weary way home to discover that one of her former secretaries is now living in her apartment? How would you like to have tea served to you on your own grandmother’s tea set by an intruder who has, in your forced absence, moved into your home? The play invites us to ponder whether it is possible to mend broken cups, broken bridges, and broken lives.
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