The Body of an American, Gate Theatre

Photo credited to Simon Dutson.

The Body of an American is a play about a photograph. We get to see the photograph multiple times throughout the opening of the play. We see it in pixels, distorted up and close. We see the version they printed and the version they didn't. We see it from the view of the photographer who took it, from the view of various bystanders and from the family of the body. The only person whose view we don't get is the view from the body itself.