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After his discharge, soldier Daniel Reeves is arrested and tried for the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and her family, crimes he may have committed while serving in Iraq. As he moves through military and civilian bureaucracy, legal proceedings, therapy and religious encounters, the play’s stages echo the nine circles of Dante’s Inferno.
In an alternate-history 1605 England, Robert Cecil forces Shakespeare—called Shagspeare—to write an official history of the Gunpowder Plot. As Shag interviews conspirator Thomas Wintour and investigates priest Henry Garnet’s trial, the actors dramatize and revise the story, while Shag seeks a way to tell the truth without being caught.
After his discharge, soldier Daniel Reeves is arrested and tried for the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and her family, crimes he may have committed while serving in Iraq. As he moves through military and civilian bureaucracy, legal proceedings, therapy and religious encounters, the play’s stages echo the nine circles of Dante’s Inferno.
In an alternate-history 1605 England, Robert Cecil forces Shakespeare—called Shagspeare—to write an official history of the Gunpowder Plot. As Shag interviews conspirator Thomas Wintour and investigates priest Henry Garnet’s trial, the actors dramatize and revise the story, while Shag seeks a way to tell the truth without being caught.