About the Play: Written within weeks after his election to office, Building The Wall projects the consequences of President Trump’s anti-immigration campaign rhetoric turned federal policy. Two years into his presidency, that policy has resulted in the mass round-up of millions of undocumented immigrants, with their incarceration overflowing into private prisons and camps reminiscent of another century. The former warden of one facility, Rick, is awaiting sentencing for what happened under his watch. In a riveting interview with Gloria, a historian who has come seeking the truth, he gradually reveals how the unthinkable became the inevitable.
