Regional Theater Review: BLOOD AND GIFTS (La Jolla Playhouse)
GRIPPING PLAY EXPLORES THE TANGLED WEB BORN OF AN IDEALISTIC WAR Set primarily in Pakistan along the Afghan border, J.T. Rogers' Blood and Gifts begins in 1981, a critical point in the Cold War. Brezhnev's Russian invasion of Afghanistan has Reagan in a quagmire: how does the U.S. attempt to stop the spread of communism [...]