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A Line in the Sand
4 Male, 0 Female
Guillermo Verdecchia & Marcus Youssef Price: $16.95
In Autumn 1990, during Operation Desert Shield, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldier, the other a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer, meet in the scorched Qatari desert
Breaching the divide of a profound cultural misunderstanding and against a backdrop of massive global conflict, these two become unlikely and secret friends
This tenuous friendship is severed by the torture and murder of the 16-year-old Palestinian inside the Canadian base; an act to which his friend the soldier was at least a witness and perhaps a willing participant
Weaving poetic drama with a myriad of documentary sources A Line in the Sand rips the benevolent mask off recent western peacekeeping operations and challenges Canada's long treasured national mythology that it is a nation of quiet diplomats
It asks us to imagine how horrors like these could be perpetrated with our money, in our name and by people much like us
Winner of a Chalmers Best New Play Award in 1997
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