Jacopo Gassmann returns to collaborate with the LAC, staging *The Body of an American*, which originated from a meeting between American playwright Dan O’Brien and Paul Watson, a Canadian photojournalist who took the famous photograph of the body of American soldier William David Cleveland being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu in 1993.
The Body of an American
Dan O’Brien / Jacopo Gassmann
World Premiere
show in production
The Body of an American
Dan O’Brien / Jacopo Gassmann
World Premiere
show in production
How does pain, once transformed into an image, continue to live on beyond the moment it was seen and continue to work within us? Is it still possible, today, to look at it without being numbed?
Dan O’Brien’s intense and provocative text takes its starting point from a historical moment in which a single, brutal photograph helped change the course of global events.
Spanning different times and places—from Rwanda to Afghanistan to the Canadian Arctic—the play unfolds as a sweeping, multi-layered narrative, brought to life by powerful theatrical writing. At its core are the ethical and personal consequences of Paul Watson’s photograph, as well as the complex relationship between political upheavals and the experience of trauma in an era saturated with images and information.
In this award-winning play, O’Brien identifies a turning point in recent history while simultaneously shedding light on deeply personal issues that resonate powerfully in our present.
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