Talking to Terrorists

Synopsis

Can you imagine anything that mattered so much you'd blow up a pub full of people? Strap explosives to your body? Hold a petrified child at gunpoint? Until we understand how ordinary people can do these things we won't stop them. This play is for anyone who has ever wanted to ask why.

Our Review:

5 July 2005

Out of Joint’s new verbatim drama – based on a year’s worth of interviews and rehearsals undertaken by playwright Robin Soans, director Max Stafford-Clark and their team of actor-researchers – offers a forceful reminder, if one were needed, that the practice of terrorism long predates the so-called “War on Terror”.

On the London press night at the Royal Court, that message, as well as the human toll and proximity of terror, was reinforced by the attendance of Terry Waite. From the stalls, Waite watched as on stage his bearded mirror image (referred to merely as “an archbishop’s envoy” and played with rumpled stoicism by Lloyd Hutchinson) recounted his experience, the lost five years of his life – at the end, the former Lebanon hostage applauded with gusto.

Waite was not alone in being both moved and challenged by the personal testimonies, professional opinions and intellectual arguments presented in Talking to Terrorists by a well-drilled, multi...

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