The Great Game: Afghanistan is a long, long series of plays. Clocking in at some seven-and-a-half hours, the Tricycle Theatre Company’s marathon run through nearly 170 years of Afghan history leaves one at once exhausted, humbled, and oddly invigorated. This tour de force through Afghanistan’s tribulations under British, Soviet, and now American occupation leaves the viewer feeling rather better educated, but perhaps more baffled than ever before. “Are we in our ninth year in Afghanistan?” ponders an aide to Gen. Stanley McChrystal in a dramatic representation of an actual statement. “Or are we on our first year for the ninth time?” If it were only nine years that mattered! [Read more...]