http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1213/6586.asp
Exceptional theater. Focused on last years of Fallaci's life and the Islamic issues and personal issues. Wright invents a young woman journalist from Iran working for the Times to interview Oriana and the narrative unfolds in the tensions between them. A Child Never Born plays into the scenario as Maryam is the age of the lost daughter. Wright has done what Fallaci espoused ; literary invention helps us see the truth in the facts. Fallaci's interview style led the way to our present day Charlie Rose interviews and prior to him Barbara Walters acting as the medium for the audience to hear the words of powerful figures
Fallaci started as a teen in the Resistance leading POWs through Italian lines and decided on journalism as a career rather than medicine. A moving and provocative 90 minutes in the theater. Fallaci was one of my heroines along with Madame Curie though on different planes. She herself says that she stood up to tyranny that others might do likewise and change their lives.
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