Pen America, Issue 10, 2009

Developed by New Works Now, Public Theatre, 2005

Two actors, a director and a playwright — also named Saïd Sayrafiezadeh — attempt to stage a play about the Iran hostage crisis of 1979. But fear of retribution by the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the performers’ own untruthfulness, causes the players on stage to unwittingly create an incendiary story about September 11th.