Based on the journalist-playwright George Packer's original article in The New Yorker, Betrayed is the story of three young Iraqi translators who risk everything for America's promise of freedom while their country collapses around them. “The clarity of the writing, the urgency of the story being told...give the play a sharp dramatic impact and a plain-spoken beauty. Painful human experience is presented here as just that. Nothing else is necessary to awaken sympathy, despair and awareness of a grave moral failure on the part of the American government.” — The New York Post

Original music by Rahim Al Haj.

Includes an interview with playwright and journalist George Packer.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February of 2009.