Photographs taken shortly before the execution of prisoners at S-21, also known as Tuol Sleng Prison, during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Photographs from S-21
A Short Play by Catherine Filloux
Presented in the Roy
Bowen Theatre
Directed by Lesley
Ferris
October 2-4 at 8:00 PM
Two real-life photos in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City come to life in a surreal exposé of a nation's soul. The photos, of a young Cambodian woman and man, were taken by the Khmer Rouge right after removing their blindfolds. The play has been produced around the U.S. and the world.
"Catherine Filloux's very beautiful, and touching text is reduced to its essential truths and to a constant questioning: ‘why?’ The great power of the play is to say so much with so few words, and in so little time." Jacques Bekaert, GAVROCHE, The magazine of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, May 2001
Co-sponsored by the Office of International Affairs and produced as part of the joint OIA-Mershon Center Conference Deprivation, Violence, and Identities: Mapping Contemporary World Conflicts.
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