Event: PWM's Sounding series (January 20)

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PWM’s SOUNDINGS SERIES WITH JONATHAN GARFINKEL

TO THE HEARTLAND OF FEAR

Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal presents their Soundings Series with Jonathan Garfinkel. Join us Friday, January 20 at 7pm at the Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal Studio located at 5337 Blvd. St-Laurent, Suite 240.

RSVP 514-843-3685 or info@playwrights.ca

Jonathan Garfinkel is an award-winning author. His book of literary non-fiction, Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide, has been published in five countries to wide critical acclaim. He has written a number of plays produced in North America and Europe, including The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret (produced by Theatre Asylum in Canada; Heidelberg State Theatre in Germany, and the Governor-General’s Award nominated House of Many Tongues (Tarragon Theatre, 2009; Bochum Schauspielhaus, 2008). His journalism has been nominated for a National Magazine Award and published in “The Best Canadian Non-Fiction”. In 2008 he won the KM Hunter Award for theatre.

TO THE HEARTLAND OF FEAR

What happens when a Jewish writer, with no fixers, few contacts, and only a tourist visa, decides to venture into the heartland of fear?

In November and December 2010, Jonathan Garfinkel traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan to gather research for a play. While there he compiles a series of travel notes – observations of the war on terror, as well as musings on his own fears and out-of-placeness. Please join us for a special presentation as Jonathan Garfinkel reads from these notes and shares photographs from “the heartland of fear”.