Called to Account

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented a reading Called to Account: The Indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair and George W. Bush for the Crime of Aggression Against Iraq—A Hearing livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 16 December at 3:30 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 5:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EST (New York).

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In a reading inspired by the Richard Norton‑Taylor play (that famously put “Tony Blair” on trial for crimes against humanity), The Segal Center will present a new version (placing “George W. Bush” on the stand) that includes excerpts from Dianne Feinstein’s CIA Torture Report (2014).

In 2006, two leading UK attorneys tested the evidence of the grounds for an indictment of the British Prime Minister for the crime of aggression against Iraq. They examined a number of distinguished witnesses, including MPs, diplomats, international lawyers, civil servants, UN officials, policy advisors, intelligence experts, and journalists. The arguments and testimony gathered, edited into a play by Richard Norton-Taylor, examine the criminal implications of the British Government’s decision to use force against Iraq, and allow the audience to decide whether an indictment in this case is proven. The Segal Center will present excerpts of its own hybrid version, directed by Ashley Tata. Dramaturgy by Meropi Peponides.

Meropi Peponides is a writer, dramaturg, artistic producer, and co-founder of Radical Evolution, a multiethnic producing collective based in Brooklyn. She is also the Producer at Soho Rep. Other organizations with which she has collaborated include The Foundry Theatre, The Movement Theatre Company, Women’s Project Theater, The Public Theater, 24th Street Theatre and Watts Village Theater Company. BA, UCLA. MFA Columbia University (Dean’s fellow).

Ashley Tata is a Brooklyn-based theatre & opera director. Recent credits include the world premiere of Mojiao Wang’s opera Encounter at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing as part of the Beijing Modern Music Festival; David T. Little’s Soldier Songs with video by Bill Morrison (Atlas Theatre, DC and the Holland Festival, produced by Beth Morrison Projects); Guard (2014) (part of The House is Open at the Fisher Center, Bard College); Venture Opera’s Don Pasquale (National Opera Center, NYC and Kay Meeke Center, Vancouver); Lainie Fefferman’s Here I Am (Roulette Intermedium, NYC); Into the Woods (LIU Post); The Censorship of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour (Martin E. Segal Center); Rebecca Gilman’s The Glory of Living (Revolve Productions, NYC); Menotti’s The Telephone (Alchemical Theater Laboratory, NYC). She has assisted Rinde Eckhert, Daniel Fish. and Robert Woodruff, among others. BA Marymount Manhattan College. MFA Columbia University. www.ashleykellytata.com

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