Embedded
From: Tuesday, 31st August 2004
To: Saturday, 23 October 2004
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Synopsis
Embedded is an incisive, black comedy about the Pentagon's Prime Time War, a huge, stage-managed 24-hour news event and its attempts to turn the media feeding-frenzy to its advantage. Behind the scenes are the President's dark cabal of advisors, orchestrating the spin and convinced it's right to tell a few 'noble lies'. Suitable for 14+
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10 September 2004
Political theatre, they say, is rampant at the moment. Always trust wars and conflict for bringing out the best in artists. Not that Tim Robbins would recognise that sentence. Film star one moment, he's been royally blasted for daring to put on stage his Americanised, 21st-century form of political theatre. `Naïve', `didactic', `preaching to the converted' – he's had the lot thrown at him.
Well, for anybody who still likes a taste of the `other', a touch of the commitments, Embedded won't be an entire waste of time – even if, at £25, Riverside has virtually closed the door on reaching the kind of people who might find their hearts and minds changed by it. A shame, a wasted opportunity.
But, if for nothing else, Embedded, a typical piece of American agit-prop performed by Robbins LA-based Actors' Gang company, is going to make fascinating comparison with Stuff Happens (opening at the National tonight, 10 ...
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4.37.219.1) - 14 October 2004:
Should be compulsory. Has Tony seen it?...
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Tim Robbins (Author)
Riverside Studios (Producer)
Robert Boyett Theatricals (Producer)
Tim Robbins (Director)
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