Play to focus on aftermath of 9/11 attacks

3:13 p.m., Sept. 1, 2005--Distant Voices Theatre Company will present September Echoes: Reflections of 9-11 and the Asian American Experience, at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 14, in the Bacchus Theatre in the Perkins Student Center. Sponsored by UD's Office of Multicultural Programs, the event is free and open to the public.

A nonprofit arts organization based in Wilmington, Distant Voices was founded in 1999 by Julie Nishimura, a faculty accompanist for the Department of Music and instructor of chamber music at UD, and her husband Danny Peak, a writer, director and theatre instructor. The group is dedicated to producing and performing original plays based on real events from America’s past and present.

In Oct. 2001, six weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Distant Voices was commissioned by Saint Andrew and Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilmington, to write a play dealing with the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

September Echoes: Reflections of 9-11 and the Asian American Experience, focuses on the voices and events of Sept. 11, with special emphasis given to the backlash against the Arab-American community and its parallels to the Japanese-American internment during World War II.

The 45-minute play, which features diary entries, eyewitness accounts, newspaper articles, political speeches and private letters, debates issues such as national security versus civil liberties, racial profiling, bigotry and prejudice.

For more information, call (302) 831-2991.

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