Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
by Rajiv Joseph

"Tragic yet darkly comic and highly imaginative… Joseph has created a theatrical landscape that is totally different from the harrowing war reports to which the nightly news has accustomed us."

— CurtainUp

"Joseph’s metaphoric inventiveness is magnificently displayed throughout, and the kaleidoscope of figures and images bespeaks a purely theatrical imagination."

— Los Angeles Times

"The bottom line: Dark and disturbing but also corrosively funny, Rajiv Joseph’s play set during the early days of the Iraq War is an original."

— The Hollywood Reporter

"Set in the chaotic first days of the American invasion of Iraq, this boldly imagined, harrowing and surprisingly funny drama considers the long afterlife of violent acts, as well as the impenetrable mysteries of the afterlife itself."

— The New York Times