Backstage: "Journalist Santiago Lyon was impressed by the play's veracity. 'There were times when it was like watching strangers act out parts of my own life.'
Lyon was speaking as part of a panel discussion earlier this week at The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University about the lives of war reporters.
In conjunction with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, the event was led by Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center, and featured Lyon and his wife Emma Daly, both reporters, who spoke candidly about what it is like to be in the action, reporting from the source."
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I think Donald Margulies' play seems like a very interesting piece of theatre. I particularly like the fact that Margulies' intention with the play was not to make some social/political commentary, as so many plays do, but his point was to depict a relationship that many people could not possibly understand unless they were in the same situation, that relationship being the marriage of two journalists/war correspondents. So many plays want to delve deeply into political themes and messages, so I think that this play is refreshing in the sense that it is kind of simple, even though the relationship it's exploring is so complicated.
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