Best Sifted History

The actors in ...becoming non grata performed each episode in this production as though they had personally lived it -- which, in a way, they did. The collaboratively written piece, which focused on events at the Japanese internment camp at Amache, Colorado, was developed over a six-month period by an ensemble of UCD theater students and guest artists working with professor and director Laura Cuetara. Together they devoted countless hours to research, study and improvisation, editing the material to a length that could be digested in a single sitting. The result was a series of historical scenes and present-day arguments that posed the question of whether some of World War II's most crucial battles weren't really waged at home.