Another Country: Bloom

Guillermo Verdecchia’s first play, Another Country, about his home country Argentina’s Dirty War in 1976–83, when leaders of the military junta held that their campaign against “leftist subversives and terrorists” was the beginning of the third world war; and his latest, bloom, overflowing with images from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, appear utterly contemporaneous and relevant in the context of the current destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, and constitute an unsparing interrogation of a world perpetually at war.