Gaza: The Human Scale Written and performed by Lawrence Wright, directed by Oskar Eustis, produced by the Public Theater (2010)
Following up on his New Yorker essay, "Captives," Wright performed this unsparing and graphic exploration of the ongoing crisis in Gaza during a sold-out run in New York City in October 2010, as well as appearing at the legendary Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel, in May 2011.
According to The New York Times, "The journalist Lawrence Wright possesses a knack for clarifying complicated problems. Obviously this comes in handy in his regular line of work, but it is just as useful in his secondary vocation, as a public raconteur trying to elucidate thorny topical issues from the unlikely pulpit of an Off Broadway stage." Read the review »
From the Tribeca Film Festival Program Notes:
Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) collaborates with Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright to bring Wright's titular one-man play to the screen. Wright made waves in 2006 with his best-selling book, The Looming Tower, chronicling fundamentalist Islam's rise to power, and the roots of modern religious extremism and terrorism.
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
(Written by Lawrence Wright, directed by Marco Perella, 2006, and
Gregory Mosher, 2007)
This unique presentation is based
on Wright’s bestseller, The
Looming Tower. According to the New
York Times, "More than a linear narrative about the
formation of Al Qaeda, the show is an informal scrapbook of Middle
Eastern politics and culture seen through a Westerner’s sharp,
informed and sometimes sorrowful eyes, complete with visual aids
in the form of slides and video clips." View
a video excerpt…
