Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
An exotic beast stalks the boardinRajiv Joseph’s smart, savagely funny, and Pulitzer nominated work-Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Step aside Hungry Ghost -a new spectre is in town. He’s prowling the stage in Singapore. Fresh from two critically acclaimed Broadway productions one starring Academy Award winner Robin Williams and produced in Singapore for four nights only!14-17th October 2015 at DBS Arts Centre –Home of the SRT. The Stage Club is delighted to present Rajiv Joseph’s (Animals out of Paper, North Pool, Gruesome Playground Injuries) groundbreaking American play which explores both the power and the perils of human nature.Join us, as the lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are forever changed by murder, mayhem and madness in the midst of war. Violence, anger, greed, forgiveness, and redemption are examined in funny, touching, and insightful exchanges between man and beast; the living and the dead. Rajiv Joseph’s groundbreaking Pulitzer nominated American play explores both the power and the perils of human nature, the search for freedom, and the existence of the after-life. Both man and beast struggle to find meaning in an increasingly fragile landscape as the Bengal Tiger prowls the streets of Baghdad and joins human voices in asking, “Why am I here?”The eerily rich narrative of this award winning Play is based on a true incident which occurred in the early days of the American Invasion of Iraq in 2003.