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Air Raid

Now Playing
March 18, 2003
April 6, 2003
Written by
Archibald MacLeish
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Directed by
Stephen Stout
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Commissioned by
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Air Raid's only previous known production was as a radio play, which reached a vast American audience in 1938 when it was broadcast by CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System). MacLeish, a playwright, cultural adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and poet known as “America’s Poet Laureate,” used powerful poetic language in AIR RAID to address Americans’ fears as World War II loomed on the horizon. Sixty-five years later, the play’s warnings about the perils of fascism remain shockingly timely, in reverse, as the U.S. prepared to wage a war with Iraq, largely without the support of governing world bodies.

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HERE Arts Center
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013
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Set Design: Sarah Lambert Costume Design: Elly van Horne Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli Sound Design: Dave Morreale Stage Manager: John Roque Rehearsal Stage Manager: Cynthia Curtis Press: Sam Rudy Media Relations