Directed by Mark Rayment. The country instantly came together to cope with the crisis of rescue and recovery, joining together to dig out the survivors, find the victims and provide aid and comfort to their families. It is not enough to spend this day in quiet contemplation of those we loved and lost. Severe clear. That was our answer to Osama Bin Laden's repeated declarations of war. His Disposable Men was awarded the first ever IT Award for Solo Performance. Typically, severe clear conditions occur after a storm or heavy weather, the kind of weather New York City and the Eastern seaboard experienced on Sept. 10, 2001. They showed us the way. 212-627-2556 (administrative + box office). The humanitarian and rebuilding efforts weren't the only considerations that prompted a united front. The shock of the attacks, the magnitude of the destruction which unfolded right before our eyes, cleared away the ordinary impediments to getting things done. Can we do better? Ironically, the enormity of what we have achieved has given the public so great a sense of security that even mentioning terrorism in the context of national security is met with charges of "fear mongering." The passengers and crew of United Airlines flight 93 are the enduring example for us all. The job to rebuild 1 million square feet of damaged office space in five connected buildings was estimated to take four years but was completed by the first anniversary of the attacks. We learned that in 2000, sensitive to accusations about "domestic spying," the National Security Agency withdrew intercepts of phone calls made from the U.S. to a known Bin Laden switchboard at a house in Yemen. The World Trade Center towers were the iconic symbols of U.S. economic power. Mine is told from where I worked; inside The North Tower of the World Trade Center, inside Windows on the World, the restaurant on the 106th and 107th floors. We were no longer going to play defense. More than 20,000 body parts were recovered at Ground Zero; 1.8 million tons of steel and rubble were cleared in nine months--and under budget. The change from a passive to an aggressive national defense could only have taken place because the public would accept no less. Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, who led the prosecution of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and a dozen others in his terrorist organization, put it in perspective this way: "The United States' forces have often killed and captured in a single day of combat more jihadists than were prosecuted throughout the 1990s. Three of the 9/11 hijackers, whose applications were riddled with red flags, got their visas that way. SEVERE CLEAR, is an original, non linear, devised work. The calls had been placed by Khalid al-Midhar in San Diego, where he and Nawaf al-Hamzi, two of the hijackers on American Airlines flight 77, were living. We must also ask whether we are losing our resolve and becoming complacent. Other work includes, London, West End: THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE (Duchess Theatre – Olivier, Critics Circle, Evening Standard awards),COMIC POTENTIAL (Lyric Theatre – Olivier, Evening Standard awards), SEPTEMBER TIDE, THE CHALK GARDEN, DECEPTIONS (Kings Head Theatre), THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE (Ambassadors Theatre), HERITAGE (Hampstead Theatre), HIDDEN LAUGHTER (Vaudeville Theatre), ON-HOLIDAY (Duchess Theatre). Other grants include Franklyn Furnace Grant, Edith Lutyens & Norman Bel Geddes grant. The fact that these conflicts are continuing, that they are complicated and difficult on both fronts, should not detract from our military's enormous success in pushing back al-Qaida and the Taliban. A solo performance piece written and performed by James Scruggs. It described the threat that killed our fellow citizens as a "gathering storm" which went unrecognized and unchecked for too many years and characterized the inability to predict the attack itself as a "failure of imagination." For many of us, the crisp blue sky after a thunderstorm always harkens us back to that hard September day. At the Pentagon, firefighters battled a ferocious fire that raged all day. Regional/UK: THE SUNSHINE BOYS, BOUNCERS, HAPPY NATIVES, CINDERELLA. With the exception of our ongoing military mission, all of the above-mentioned national security initiatives and changes in the law were accomplished or initiated within one year of the attacks, well before the 9/11 Commission had convened or issued a single report. ", One month after 9/11, the NSA's terrorist surveillance program, which allowed foreign-to-domestic communications monitoring, or listening to foreign-to-foreign calls that were routed through U.S. telecoms, was given executive branch approval. It was a NY Times “One of 4 Must See Shows in May” and got “4 stars in Timeout NY”. She is a member of The Committee on the Present Danger, a non-partisan organization devoted to fighting terrorism, and a director of the National Sept. 11 Memorial Foundation. It was essential that the stock market not fail, that the economy hold, that the sectors hurt by the attacks come back. This is an aviation term used by pilots to describe unlimited visibility conditions. In the blink of an eye, 40 unarmed citizens assessed their situation, took a vote and decided to take back the plane