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November 5, 2007

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The Story of the Flood – Disaster and Hope on the Horizon

Stories are always told in specific historical contexts, but the human condition always brings us back to recurring issues, thus:

Teatro La Fragua used “neo-medieval post-modernism” to stage the story of Noah and the Great Flood in a relief shelter after Hurricane Mitch, and Paul Chan is staging Waiting for Godot in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, two years after Hurricane Katrina.

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