Atrocities: Hallucinations of Chechnya

"Towards the close of Charles Duncombe's harrowing ensemble piece about human rights abuses by Russian soldiers in Chechnya, a young man asks incredulously, "It's not really possible for people to act like that, is it?" The answer is self-evident but far from simple, and rooted in paradox. One by one [these] steely-eyed, parlous young men recount nightmarish acts of murder, rape, and torture, committed against men, women, and children. Some speak as if seeking absolution or to assuage tormented consciences, while others glibly justify these acts by war's brutal logic or as necessary acts of vengeance for atrocities perpetrated by the enemy...That we never fully or satisfactorily fathom what makes these men (and others like them) tick is understandable; that we find judging them difficult is what makes the play thought-provoking."--LA Weekly

Author: Charles A. Duncombe
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 03/05/2012
Pages: 92
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.19d
ISBN: 9781470071943

About the Author
Charles Duncombe is the author of the City Garage texts Atrocities (2000), Cinema Stories: Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage (2002), Oedipustext/LA (2003) and Patriot Act: A Reality Show (2004). He also wrote the company's adaptations of Heiner Müller: Medeatext; Los Angeles/Despoiled Shore (2000); Frederick of Prussia/George W's Dream of Sleep (2001); and The Mission (Accomplished) (2008). His English-language versions (with Frédérique Michel) of Molière's The Bourgeois Gentleman and The School For Wives premiered in 2008 and 2009 at City Garage. Patriot Act won the 2004 Fratti-Newman Award for Political Playwriting. All three of his Müller adaptations were nominated for the LA Weekly's "Best Adaptation" award, as was The Trojan Women: LA/Darfur Dreamscape in 2010. He is also the author of the short story collection Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage and Other Stories. He lives in Los Angeles.

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