Young blood.(director Brian Mullin makes a play 'Over There/Over Here')
American Theatre, December, 2006
NEW YORK CITY: It's not that there haven't been plays about the war in Iraq. But it's rare for them to be written from the perspective of teens from working-class neighborhoods. "We don't think of the war as a youth issue," points out director Brian Mullin, "but young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are fighting and dying there.
For a lot of public high school kids, the armed services are their avenue of advancement." Over There/Over Here, playing at Castillo Theatre through Dec. 10, is war according to a 22-year-old playwright, Michael Reyes, who spent ...
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