Monday March 3rd 2008, Martin E. Segal.

Join us in celebrating the latest Segal Center Publication Four Plays from North Africa with Editor Marvin Carlson
A staged reading of Araberlin By Jalila Baccar
Translated by David Looseley
Directed by Rafael De Mussa
With Natalie Paul, Julia Weldon, Adam Kee, Sergei Burbank, Rafael De Mussa.
Original Music by Sarah Plant.

This first English collection of North African drama includingThe Veil by Abdelkader Alloula (Algeria), Araberlin by Jalila Baccar (Tunisia), House of the Wivesby Fatima Gallaire (Algeria) and The Folies Berbers by Tayeb Saddiki (Morocco), engages, in a fascinating and original way, such important current issues as the struggle for the rights of women and workers, post-colonial tensions between Maghreb and Europe, and the challenges faced in Europe by immigrants from the Arab world.

Horizon Theatre Rep commissioned this translation of Araberlin with a generous grant from The French American Fund for The Performing Arts etant donnes.

Wednesday, October 27 2004, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY.

A Staged Reading of Armand Salacrou's Les Nuits de la Colere
Translated by David Looseley
Daniel Gerould (Moderator), Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Directed by Samuel Buggeln
With Alex Kilgore, Gideon Banner, Rafael De Mussa, Duncan Stewart, Meg MacCary, Marc Aden Gray, Tami Mansfield, Michael Urie.

In Nazi-controlled Chartres in April, 1944, a resistance fighter who has blown up a train is killed by the Gestapo, and the friend who betrayed him to a collaborator is executed by other resistance members. Nights of Fury travels back in time to uncover the secrets of the betrayal and to examine the ethics of anti-Nazi sabotage and law-and-order collaboration with the authorities.

Written by Armand Salacrou-one of the most original voices of his generation and the equal of Sartre and Anouilh-Nights of Fury premiered in 1946.