Palace of the End
From: Wednesday, 5th August 2009
To: Sunday, 30 August 2009
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Synopsis
A female American soldier facing a court-martial for torture and prisoner abuse, a British former UN Weapons Inspector exposed as a source for a BBC journalist, and an Iraqi woman pursued by Saddam Hussein's secret police, each wrestle with the truth in Judith Thompson's urgent, hard-hitting and devastating play.
Our Review:
18 August 2009
“Another play about Iraq?” Not a good reaction to reviewing Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End perhaps, but my initial reaction in all honesty, particularly on hearing the play consists of three monologues, voiced respectively by a disgraced American soldier, a UN weapons inspector and an Iraqi woman pursued by Saddam Hussein’s secret police. Haven’t we heard it before?
But let me say this: nothing about Thompson’s play is ‘same old.’ Thanks to a remarkable script and a powerhouse of performances by Kellie Bright, Robert Demeger and Eve Polycarpou, I left the Traverse with a wholly new perspective on this manmade mess of a war and not a trace of the media-induced apathy I took in with me.
Of course, the material is familiar. Bright’s smiling Lynndie England steps up first, telling tales on Abu Ghraib and googling her own name to read the latest torrent of abuse spewed at her. “You must be libera...
Creative
Judith Thompson (Author)
Hare (Structural Engineers) (Corporate Sponsor)
Royal Exchange (Producer)
Greg Hersov (Director)
Miriam Nabarro (Design)
Richard Owen (Lighting)
Claire Windsor (Sound)
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