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Syrian Refugee Take On “The Trojan Women” Scuttled As U.S. Denies Performers Visas

THEATRE Posted: August 29, 2014 1:18 am

“It had the potential to be one of the most galvanizing cultural events of the season: a dozen Syrian women, refugees from that besieged country, performing in Washington a version of a 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy revised to include their own harrowing stories. But now the … State Department rejected the women’s applications for entertainers’ visas for the performances … because it is not convinced that the women would leave.”

THEATRE Published: 08.28.14

Read the story in The Washington Post Published: 08.28.14

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