Describe the Night
By ensemble member Rajiv Joseph
Directed by ensemble member Austin Pendleton
Main Series
ABOUT the SHOW
"YOU FORGOT SOMETHING? THIS WILL MAKE YOU REMEMBER. THE LEECHES ARE DEAD. LET’S EAT."
Truth is lie; lie is truth. 1920: Jewish writer Isaac Babel begins a journal while serving in war. Ninety years later, this same journal is found in the wreckage of a suspicious plane crash. What did Babel write, and why does it matter? Ensemble member Rajiv Joseph’s epic thriller ricochets through place and time following the unlikely lives of seven individuals – soldiers and poets, KGB agents and babushkas – as they unearth mysteries buried by decades of history, fiction and blood.
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