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Credits

Opening Date: Aug 26, 2004; Writers: Victoria Brittain, Gillian Slovo

It's said that history is written by the victors; through the excruciatingly hopeless words of actual ''enemy combatants'' detained without trial in an American-run prison in Cuba, the British creators of this show promise, ''History will not be neutered.'' As the 12 cast members passionately inhabit real-life characters — an Iraqi national who lived in the U.K.; an English-born Muslim who was setting up a water-purification plant in Afghanistan; the desperate relatives of the captured; even Donald Rumsfeld — Guantànamo implicates the audience in the crime of indifference to a growing atrocity: the denial of basic human rights to prisoners of an international war. It's not comfortable, but it's powerful as hell.


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