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Staged Reading

Sense of an Ending

An award-winning play about the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the search for truth and forgiveness.

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"That night, it begins. The men, they come into the church.
They take a few of the old ones. I hear these sounds out in the hills.
Horrible horrible sounds. Father said they wouldn’t hurt the children."
—Sister Alice

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Location
Building W97-160
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Free and open to the public

Fast-paced, fluid, and taut.

The New York Times

A staged reading of Sense of an Ending

written by MIT Senior Lecturer Ken Urban
directed by Pascale Florestal

A disgraced New York Times journalist arrives in Rwanda for an exclusive interview with two Hutu nuns. Charged with homicide, the nuns must convince the world of their innocence during the 1994 genocide or face a lifetime in prison. When an unknown survivor contradicts their story, this journalist must choose which version of the truth to tell the world, but he can only do that by walking in the shoes of those who survived.

A collaboration between Front Porch Arts Collective and MIT Theater.

Delia Wendel, Associate Professor, MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), will be serving as the moderator for the talkback following the reading.

Ripped key art for Sense of an Ending staged reading.

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Five stars! A superb play about the Rwandan genocide…so intense that, in between each scene, you can hear the audience gulp for air.

Time Out London

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