Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo 
by Rajiv Joseph

Director Sandra M. Nicholls

November 29 to December 8, 2012 at 7:30 pm
$5 preview Nov 28 at 7:30 pm
Matinee Dec 6 at 12:30 pm
(No show Sunday, Dec 2)

Timms Centre for the Arts (87 Avenue & 112 Street)

The lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are entangled forever by an encounter with a foul-mouthed tiger that haunts the streets of war-torn Baghdad, searching for meaning, forgiveness, redemption and a bloody meal.

Both brutal and atrociously funny, this 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist takes a fierce look at the power and perils of human nature, war, and the American Dream.

Media Release: U of A Studio Theatre Mounts Canadian Premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.

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“Smart, savagely funny and visionary" New York Times

Rajiv Joseph
American playwright, writer for television series Nurse Jackie

"The need to tell a very interesting and compelling story makes certain then that my plays are not in the least bit autobiographical." Rajiv Joseph

Other Plays:
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Animals out of Paper

Productions of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
The play debuted in 2009 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, California, directed by Moisés Kaufman. A Broadway production opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2011, again directed by Kaufman, starring Robin Williams as Tiger.