Generation 9-11: So Far/So Close
written and performed by Chris Wolfe
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2011
Director and Co-creator: Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly
This one-man show is based on stories gathered by Wolfe – a San Francisco and London-based performer, writer, and director – from everyday people across the United States who found out about the events of September 11th via television, the internet, and word of mouth.
This is a captivating and quietly profound one-man show by San Franciscan Chris Wolfe that refracts 9/11 through the memories of ordinary people, right up to the present day. He’s a charismatic performer, and his characterisation is strong and bold, yet finely etched. At times the show is shocking, at others funny, and Wolfe isn’t afraid to challenge his audience’s preconceptions.”
– David Kettle, The List, The Edinburgh Festival Guide
By focusing on the personal cost of 9/11, Wolfe and director Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly have created a thoughtful and refreshingly honest account of the complexities of the human condition and the reality of a modern society in crisis…Generation 9/11 is a thought-provoking piece of theatre.”
– Amy Taylor, Fest
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- Apoptosis
- Clown as Protest
- A Terrible Silence (staged reading)
- The Brothers Paranormal
- Here on This Bridge
- Citizen: An American Lyric
- These Violent Delights
- We Are BRAVE
- Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments
- Exile
- Marisol
- My Walk Has Never Been Average
- Mother Mother: a journalistic theatre piece
- Eurydice
- Generation 9-11: So Far/So Close
- Slaughter City
- A Holtville Nights Dream