ORDEAL AT THE SUPERDOME is an extraordinary play written by French playwright Alain Saint-Saëns, who lived twenty years in New Orleans. Many readers will identify themselves with Barbara Carter’s family and her ordeal through Katrina and its immediate aftermath. Deaths because of heat exhaustion and stress; rapes of women in the bathrooms; have been attested and reported by survivors after the NFL Superdome evacuation. Barbara Carter, modern ‘Mother Courage,’ exemplifies the fortitude,...

Dr.Alain Saint-Saëns is a poet, a playwright, a literary critic, a novelist, and a translator. As a playwright, he recently authored La prisionera (2021); Ña Celestina (2021); Artigas (2017); Soledad. Vida y muerte de una poeta (2016); Romeo y Julieta en el Marzo Paraguayo (2016); Pecados de mi pueblo (2013); and, Ordeal at the Superdome (2010). He is considered as 'the Father of the Paraguayan Theater's Renaissance', a dign successor of great Luis Ruffinelli.

His books of poetry are: Canto...