Guards at the Taj

Marin Theatre Company
397 Miller Ave. Mill Valley

At morning's first light, a new edifice representing the soaring power of the empire will be unveiled: the glorious Taj Mahal. But in Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph's Guards at the Taj, the two hapless guards assigned to protect the palace will soon experience a ghoulishly funny existential crisis that will shake their faith in God, the empire and each other. Exuberantly comic, shockingly brutal and deeply tragic, the play asks us to ponder the ways in which we define beauty, perfection and, as suggested by The New York Times, "the human price paid throughout history for the caprices of the mighty." Hailed as "one of the most provocatively talented American playwrights" by the Los Angeles Times, Rajiv Joseph's Guards at the Taj is a modern theatrical must-see. It's now at the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley.