The Overwhelming

a new play by J T Rogers

You are seeking answers in a country you do not know, without a language to understand it. And yet you wish me to send my soldiers. You would like us to run through the city, flashing guns, asking, 'What has happened?'

Seizing the opportunity to research a book, Jack Exley uproots his family from illinois to Rwanda in early 1994. Alarmingly out of depth, Jack begins a fervent search for his dear and missing friend while his wife and teenage son find trouble of their own. As Jack involves himself in the local politics, he discovers a pattern of brutality and beliefs that jeopardizes the lives of everyone around him.

A gripping story of a country on the brink of genocide.

The Overwhelming finished on: 30 August 2006