Aftermath
From: Thursday, 8th July 2010
To: Saturday, 17 July 2010
Our Review: 
Search for tickets
Use the link below to search for Aftermath tickets on your desired date.
We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.
| Tweet |
|
Synopsis
If the recent Chilcot Inquiry occasionally played out like a courtroom drama, then ‘Aftermath’ is a timely reminder that the real damage done during the war in Iraq was to human lives rather than political reputations. Disenchanted with only seeing Iraq through the lens of TV news, in 2008 Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen from New York Theatre Workshop and Actors Gang - the theatre ensemble formed by Hollywood star and liberal activist Tim Robbins - decided to get as up close and personal as possible by visiting Iraqis who had fled the chaos and terror for Jordan. Aftermath is a profoundly moving piece of theatre based upon interviews with 35 of the people they met there, whose voices express both the refugee’s relief at finding sanctuary and an exile’s longing for their homeland, and who possesses an eloquence and insight the news headlines will never have.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 12 July 2010
It’s a damp and chilly venue, the labyrinthine Old Vic Tunnels underneath Waterloo Station, and it’s a damp and chilly message we hear in Aftermath, a verbatim documentary drama compiled by the creators of The Exonerated, Jessica Blank and Erick Jensen.
The Exonerated was a pitiful plea for the abolition of the death penalty, using the case histories of six innocent victims of the prosecution system. Aftermath has its moments of anger and righteousness, too, but these are less impressive than the quiet, insistent throb of pain and disappointment.
Blank and Jensen interviewed 37 Iraqi refugees in Jordan and have woven together their testimonies of despair and displacement as a result of the ground attacks and sometimes cack-handed attempts at restoring law and stability in a devastated area.
Nine actors sit quietly on the stage and take turns to bear witness, their stories interleaving ...
Cast
Fajer Al-Kaisi (Shahid)
Amir Arison (Yasser)
Leila Buck (Basima)
Maha Chehlaoui (Fadilah)
Demonthenes Chrysan (Abdul-Aliyy)
Daoud Heidami (Asad)
Omar Koury (Fouad)
Rasha Zamamiri (Naimah)
Creative
Jessica Blank A:Erik Jensen (Author)
LIFT (Producer)
Old Vic (Producer)
ArKtype (Producer)
Jessica Blank (Director)
Caleb Wertenbaker (production/design supervisor) (Other)
Richard Hoover (Design)
David Lander (Lighting)
Gabriel Berry (Costume)
David Robbins (Sound)
Related Whatsonstage.com Articles
Information
|
