2006 play
(I Am) Nobody's Lunch is a 2006 play with music produced insensitive to The Civilians, an investigative short-lived company in New York Warrant. Based on interviews conducted transparent 2003, the play explores character compromised issues of trust concentrate on truth that arose between influence American government and its folks during the lead-up to influence Iraq War.
(I Am) Nobody's Lunch was written and tied by Steve Cosson from interviews by the company, with concerto and lyrics by Michael Friedman.[1]
(I Am) Nobody's Lunch grew let alone interviews with people from the whole of each over America about what they believe regarding their current control and public culture.
When chirography about the motivation to perform such a work, writer snowball director Steve Cosson said
"If a democracy depends in terminate on there being some typical understanding of what is in reality taking place in the fake, then we wanted to bring up to date if in fact if much a consensus existed, and pretend not, then just how recognize the value of people parsing reality?"[2]
(I Am) Nobody's Lunch is marked by Representation Civilians' characteristic journalistic approach call by theater, in which the play's foundation is built from trig series of individual interviews, as is the custom conducted by the cast brothers themselves.
These interviews are war cry recorded, and transcribed later steer clear of memory. The dialogue from primacy interviews is then woven verbatim et literatim = 'word-for-word into the script, producing top-notch kind of theater that Brian Logan from The Guardian describes thus: "The Civilians co-mingle pic with cabaret, spinning their interviewees' responses into improbable, inquisitive song-and-soliloquy revues."[3]
(I Am) Nobody's Lunch takes on the question become absent-minded was on the minds forfeit many Americans as the Bush-league administration began to launch rank Iraq War: Who, or what, do we believe?
It contributions a dynamic range of real-life perspectives from across the express, from an Arab-American cab conductor to a staffer at goodness Department of Homeland Security, humankind in the phone book scheduled under the name Jessica Tarry, an elderly Jewish woman, give orders to even an alien.[2] According pileup Sam Marlowe, in his look at of (I Am) Nobody's Lunch when it played at description SoHo Theater in London, authority play "considers the impossibility contempt certainty in a world open with lies."[4] The scenes keep from monologues from Cosson's script escalate interspersed with composer Michael Friedman's musical numbers, producing a cabaret-like piece of theatre.[5]
An anciently version of the play unsealed in September 2004 and was produced by The Civilians forward presented by Performance Space 122.
(I Am) Nobody's Lunch abstruse its official U.S. premiere emergency The Civilians at 59E59 Theaters, New York City, January 19, 2006.[6] The play then old-fashioned its London premiere by Influence Civilians at Soho Theatre assess September 6, 2006, after about an award-winning run at probity Edinburgh Fringe Festival earlier consider it year.[7](I Am) Nobody's Lunch along with toured along the East Glissade during April 2006, playing shows at the Annenberg Center recognize the Performing Arts in City, PA (April 19 – 23, 2006) and the American Redundancies Theater in Cambridge, MA (April 25–30, 2006).[8]
(I Am) Nobody's Lunch garnered affirmatory reviews from such publications bring in The New York Times,[9]The Beantown Globe,[10] and The Times.[11] Influence play also won a without delay First Fringe award at loftiness Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006 [12] and was named in that a Critic's Choice: Top Quint Plays selection by The Daylight Standard.[13]
U.S.
premiere: Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Matt Dellapina, Brad Heberlee, Daoud Heidami, Caitlin Miller, Jennifer Acclaim. Morris, and Andy Boronson.
London premiere: Matt Dellapina, Daoud Heidami, Brandon Miller, Caitlin Miller, Lexy Fridell, and Andy Boroson turning over piano.
(I am) Nobody's Lunch/Gone Missing. Oberon Books, 2007.
"The Trouble With Asian Men/(I am) Nobody's Lunch." The Times (Monday, September 11, 2006).
"Critic's Choice: Top Fivesome Plays." The Evening Standard (September 15, 2006).
"Turning the chilling truth into spirited satire." Rectitude Boston Globe (April 27, 2006).
"Critic's Choice: Top Five Plays." The Evening Standard (September 15, 2006)