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. A riveting examination of the mounting tensions in 1994 Rwanda, The Overwhelming by award-winner J.T. Rogers.

Awards
TIME Magazine Top Ten Play of The Year
Time Out Top Ten Play of the Year
New York Magazine Top Ten Play of the Year

Reviews
"panorama of perspectives on a nation on the edge of civil war." - The New York Times

"Shatteringly powerful but also unexpectedly entertaining...with the atmosphere, moral urgency, and hurtling momentum of a Graham Greene novel." - Sunday Telegraph, London

The Overwhelming is part of the Berkeley Street Project initiative, where The Canadian Stage Company is partnering with Studio 180 Theatre and other vital theatre companies, such as Nightwood Theatre and Necessary Angel to transform the Canadian Stage's Berkeley Street Theatre into a dynamic home for contemporary performing arts in Toronto.

Playwright, J.T. Rogers
Director, Joel Greenberg