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Karen Malpede’s Another Life will open at the Theater for the New City in late March as part of Theatre Three Collaborative‘s Festival of Conscience, two plays and a series of conversations with a variety of progressive political voices. The centerpiece of the festival, Another Life is a poetic fantasia centering on a Dick Cheney-like mogul played by George Bartenieff. It is one of the very few American plays that directly addresses the subject of political torture in the service of representative democracy under capitalism, and earlier productions have garnered praise from figures such as actress Olympia Dukakis, the Living Theatre’s Judith Malina, and performance artist Penny Arcade.

In addition to Another LIfe, the festival will feature two readings of Malpede’s new play about climate change, Extreme Whether, which is described as “a family drama set on an endangered wilderness estate in an endangered world” and inspired by Ibsen and Chekhov. Along with Bartenieff, the cast for the readings includes Kathleen Chalfant and Zack Grenier. Malpede, on the theatre faculty of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, recently co-edited the collection Acts of War: Iraq & Afghanistan in Seven Plays, published by Northwestern University Press in 2011.

Tickets and information for all these events are now available here. The festival runs 28 March through 21 April.

March 28: Noor Elashi, writer, daughter of Ghassan Elashi, currently serving 65 years in a CMU prison in Colorado, for having led a Muslim charity that sent donations to Gaza, Pardiss Kabriaei, CCR lawyer representing Muslim’s in the U.S.

Thursday, April 4, David Swanson, author, activist

Sunday, April 7 (post-matinee): Elizabeth Holtzman, Cheating Justice & Karen J. Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security, Fordham Law.

Monday, April 8: 8 pm Reading Extreme Whether, post-show talk by Dr. James Hansen, NASA, America’s foremost climate scientist

Thursday, April 11, 8pm Another Life, tba post-show discussion

Friday, April 12, 8 pm Another Life, post-show Victoria Brittan, journalist, co-author, Guantanamo: Honour Bound to Defend Duty; Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror

Michael Ratner, Exec. Director of CCR and lawyer for Julian Assange; and Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, and other books, and contributing editor to the Nation.

Saturday, April 13: 3 pm matinee of Another Life. 4:30-6 Post-show panel, Ramzi Kassem, lawyer for Gitmo detainees, Jesselyn Radack, Government Accountability Project, lawyer for many of the whistle blowers, including John Kiriakou; and Tom Drake, whistle blower and former intelligence officer; maybe David Swanson

Sunday, April 14: 3 pm matinee of Another Life.