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 the greatness and the weakness of lower-class American people in
the still racially divided environment of pre-Katrina New Orleans. She fights with her teeth
for her children's life and rights in a very chaotic environment helped only by her faith in
God and a strong belief that regardless of their gender and the color of their skin her
children can become in 21st century America whatever they dream to become with hard work and
fear of God: a Supreme Court Justice or a NFL Wide Receiver.'Certainly it will be a long time
before we have another memorable figure like Barbara Carter 'a spirited and noble human being
a tormented soul full of ardent faith and forgettable sins.'' Gerald Monsman.
