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...pseudonymous Jane Martin's what-if about right- to-life extremists kidnapping a pregnant woman and holding her until it is too late to abort. The Actors Theatre of Louisville production, also seen at Hartford Stage, subtly traced the evolving bond between the streetwise captive (Julie Boyd) and a captor (a superb Anne Pitoniak...
Rick Warren, whose book she read to her captor...
What would you do under those circumstances? Scream? Panic? Beg? But at that point, something else intervened. Smith actually communicated with her captor. She says she saw him not as a monster but as a human being. She talked with him. She told her story--how her husband had been stabbed in a dispute and had died in her arms, how she then had developed a drug habit, had been caught for speeding and drunken driving, had been arrested for assault (the charges were dropped), had ceded custody of her young daughter to her aunt. She showed him her wounds...
...there wires attached to that man's hands?", I could not bring myself to explain that this is designed to maim a man's soul: in a culture that sanctifies masculine pride and sexual privacy, you strip him and make him masturbate in front of a mocking female captor, or put him on a leash or pretend you are going to electrocute him. But I did have to explain that the bad guys--this time--were seven U.S. soldiers, of whom it might be said that seldom has such harm been done to so many...
...fire by the side of the road, and the group was then hustled into another car and driven off.) Afraid to admit they were missionaries, the South Koreans insisted to their interrogators that they were just doctors and nurses. To prove their cover, another pastor even gave the head captor a healing massage, kneading the kidnapper's pressure points in the middle of the dusty Iraqi landscape. The group was finally released after seven hours...