The story of a photograph that made the play famous

Photographs highlighting the pathetic situations can reach millions of people and one such is journalist and war photographer Paul Watson’s photography’s on an American soldier being dreadfully dragged into the street and tortured by the crowd during Somalian war in 1993. Watson was able to capture the mood of the men and women dragging the soldier on the street and the torture meted out to the soldier that eventually lead to his death. This photograph created awareness about the situation of the war which lead to America withdrawing from the war and Watson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994.

This scandalizing photography through the lyrical play of “The Body of an American” by Dan O’Brien is available on Mediabak. As the photograph reached millions of people, the play also touched a million hearts and fetched Dan O’Brien the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy prize and many other laurels. The poetic play is all about the conversation between Paul and Dan, who formed a tentative friendship to share their views about these haunting photos.

The play is inexplicably revolving around their conversation and made the world aware about the horrors of wars. Sign up with mediabak to get read this award-winning thought provoking poetic play through the words of Paul and Dan in the eBook “The Body of an American”.