Providence, R.I.: the war at home.(Trinity Repertory Company)

Trinity Repertory Company recently deployed its creative troops on a precarious mission: to find common ground with its audience. Acting artistic director Amanda Dehnert was in search of an original production that would be topical, local and dramatic. For subject matter, she only had to look overseas and back again.

The war in Iraq has given Rhode Island its first combat casualties since World War II, and the state's national guard is now in its largest deployment--3,800 troops and counting--in nearly a century. Collaborators Laura Kepley and D. Salem Smith embarked on a ...

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