What Chimerica Tells Us About the Photograph
By Srila Nayak. Based on an actual photograph, the main action of Lucy Kirkwood's play is an American photojournalist's unyielding quest to unlock the mystery of a photograph taken by him during the 1989 student revolution and military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. In the photograph in question a slender man, who goes on to be labeled the "Tank Man," stands in front of a line of military tanks rolling into the Squar…