Written by J.T. Rogers

Directed by Joel Greenberg

Produced by Studio 180 in association with The Canadian Stage Company

Canadian Premiere  – Named the 2007 Top Ten Play of the Year by Time Magazine and Time Out New York, The Overwhelming , by award-winning playwright J.T. Rogers, is a riveting examination of the mounting tensions in 1994  Rwanda and a war that cannot be comprehended or controlled. American academic Jack Exley travels to  Rwanda to interview his old friend Joseph Gasana about struggling for good against daunting odds. But when Jack arrives in  Kigali, he is unable to find the Tutsi doctor - or anyone who will even admit to having known him. Befriended by both locals and diplomats with veiled motives, Jack and his family become enmeshed in the tension, terror, professional risks and personal betrayals that they ultimately realize mark the start of a genocidal war. The New York Times called it a “panorama of perspectives on a nation on the edge of civil war” while the Sunday Telegraph in London described it as “Shatteringly powerful but also unexpectedly entertaining…with the atmosphere, moral urgency, and hurtling momentum of a Graham Greene novel."