Facts
From: Tuesday, 26th February 2013
To: Saturday, 23 March 2013
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Synopsis
"Inspector Yassin is a police officer on police business. You will answer his questions like a human being or you will answer them handcuffed to the table and with my foot on your throat. Is that clear?" The West Bank, 2012. A prominent American archaeologist is found dead, killed by a single shot to the heart, but who could hate an archaeologist enough to murder him? As two detectives - one Israeli, one Palestinian - work together to solve the case, they learn that the victim was making outlandish claims: what if the Exodus had never happened? No Moses, no slaves, and no Promised Land... Their prime suspect - an Israeli settler - is clearly guilty of something, but of what? In a world where fact and fiction have become blurred, what are they really looking for? Inspired by a true story, Facts is a thrilling and provocative play about what happens when the truth becomes too dangerous to reveal.
Our Review:
1 March 2013
The title is, of course, ironic. Interrogators like to extract facts from those they interrogate, facts are what every shade of opinion claims to have in support of them, and facts are what archaeologists hope to unearth about ancient civilisations. In all these cases, ‘facts’ are open to multiple interpretations.
We are in an interrogation room in an Israeli army facility in the West Bank, a setting powerfully evoked by designer Georgia Lowe. An American archaeologist has been shot dead and some ‘facts’ have to be uncovered. The archaeologist is renowned for disputing many Biblical events and has made Zionist enemies. It soon appears that the interrogating officers - one a secularist Jew and the other a Palestinian – are going to be at loggerheads over the suspect they have waiting outside.
The suspect, Danny, is a true believer in the divine right of Israel to have its own land. So, the archetypal Middle East conflict is all teed up to b...
Creative
Arther Milner (Author)
Daniel Brodie (for Worn Red Theatre - in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre) (Producer)
Caitlin McLeod (Director)
Georgia Lowe (Design)
Elliot Griggs (Lighting)
Tegid Cartwright (Music)
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