Theatre: "The Time Of Our Lies" Comes To Edinburgh Fringe, July 30-A

THE TIME OF OUR LIES Comes to Edinburgh Fringe, July 30-Aug 25

Broadway World
June 4 2014

Edinburgh Fringe 2014 will welcome BIANCA BAGATOURIAN AND FRINGE
MANAGEMENT’s THE TIME OF OUR LIES: The Life and Times of Howard Zinn by
Bianca Bagatourian. Performances will play the Gilded Balloon Teviot –
DINING ROOM, July 30 – August 25th.

Historian and shipyard worker, civil rights activist and World War
II bombardier and author of A People’s History of the United States,
the best-seller that presented the country’s past through the eyes of
the common people rather than political and economic elites, Howard
Zinn was equally revered and condemned during his lifetime and his
legacy lives on since his death in 2010.

This August, Bianca Bagatourian, brings her work The Time of Our
Lies to the Gilded Balloon to tell the story of the man who wrote
extensively about the civil rights, anti-war movements and labour
history of the United States and inspired a generation of American
high school and college students to rethink their country’s heritage.

Through song, rap and spoken word, The Time of Our Lies unfolds
through Zinn’s personal story as a young bombardier and goes on to
depict how his life was shaped from there as well as examining the
stories of other soldiers and the horrors of war. It speaks to Zinn’s
message about how more peaceful solutions should be sought in these
turbulent times.

Myla Kabat-Zinn, Howard’s daughter says of the play, “A wonderfully
imaginative work that uses my father’s words as the unifying thread.

Songs, nursery rhymes and tapped-out rhythms add a playful lightness
and humanness that illuminate the horrors of war.”

Director Josh Chambers Artistic Director & Resident Composer of
Fovea Floods Theater says, “Having directed Howard before, I share
his desire to connect with our ancestry and dig deep into history.”

Bianca Bagatourian is an experimental playwright and graduate of
the MFA playwriting program at Brooklyn College with lifetime Obie
award-winning playwright, Mac Wellman. Themes in Bianca’s work often
centre around human rights themes, these being intimately woven into
the fabric of her life. Bianca is the founder and president of the
Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, a non-profit organization that has
supported Armenian artists for the past decade and also hosts the
$10,000 bi-annual William Saroyan Social Justice Playwriting Award.

TIME OF OUR LIES will play the The Gilded Balloon Teviot Wine Bar,
Wed 31 July – Sunday 25 August at 12.30(1hr). For bookings and more
information, visit or call 0131 668 1633.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress