Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is a darkly comic, metaphysical play set during the Iraq War that explores guilt, faith, and the human cost of conflict through the perspective of a talking tiger.

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instanceOf play
theatrical work
author Rajiv Joseph
awardsRecognition Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist
broadwayTheatre Richard Rodgers Theatre
broadwayTransferYear 2011
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception critically acclaimed
dramaticStyle blend of realism and surrealism
exploresTopic American military presence in Iraq
Iraqi civilian experience
existentialism
religion
war trauma
featuresElement ghosts
surreal imagery
talking animals
firstProductionYear 2009
genre dark comedy
drama
metaphysical play
hasCharacter Kev
Musa
Tiger
Uday Hussein
language English
mainTheme afterlife
faith
guilt
human cost of war
moral responsibility
violence
narrativePerspective talking tiger
notableBroadwayActor Robin Williams
notableFor use of a tiger as philosophical narrator
premiereLocation Los Angeles
premiereTheatre Kirk Douglas Theatre
pulitzerPrizeForDramaStatus finalist
rolePlayedByRobinWilliams Tiger
setDuringConflict Iraq War
settingLocation Baghdad
Baghdad Zoo
structure two-act play
subjectMatter cultural conflict
occupation of Iraq
war
timePeriod early years of the Iraq War
writer Rajiv Joseph

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Rajiv Joseph notableWork Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo