Fallujah
From: Tuesday, 1st May 2007
To: Saturday, 2 June 2007
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Synopsis
The siege of Fallujah in April 2004 was one of the most extensive human rights violations of recent times. Breaching over 70 articles of the Geneva conventions, US forces bombed schools and hospitals, sniped civilians (including children) holding white flags, cut off water and medical supplies, and deployed both napalm and white phosphorous, banned by the UN. At the time, journalists from all nations were actively prevented from entering the city, and even now the full truth of these events has never been made public. Written and directed by Dr Jonathan Holmes, Fallujah draws on research and interviews carried out by the playwright and triple Nobel Prize nominee Dr Scilla Elworthy. This play presents testimony from those at the heart of the siege: Iraqi civilians, clerics, US military and politicians, journalists, medics and aid workers and the British Army. None of this testimony has been heard before. Every word of this play is verbatim from the testimony. Not suitable for children under 14
Our Review:
4 May 2007
Wars are all about a winning idea, or so preaches one of writer/director Jonathan Holmes’ front-line interviewees brought to the stage before a crowd of London’s most concerned theatre-lovers in trendy Brick Lane’s Old Truman Brewery. Welcome to Fallujah, the next chapter in theatre’s ongoing verbatim campaign against America’s Iraq policy-makers with video game lighting and sound effects.
Composer Nitin Sawhney, sound designer David McEwan, and installation artists Lucy Orta and Jorge Orta have helped bring Holmes’ vision of Fallujah – a city in Iraq devastated by American forces and hired mercenaries – to his audience in the form of a promenade performance, bombarding them with blinking lights, piercing explosions and a warehouse stocked full of anti-contamination suits.
US generals and politicians (including Chipo Chung’s ominous Condeleeza Rice) are raised above the action on podium stages and mezzanine floors as journalists and besieg...
Cast
Harriet Walter
Imogen Stubbs
Dominic Jephcott
Chipo Chung
Shereen Martineau
Chris Jarman
Christopher Simpson
Creative
Jonathan Holmes (Author)
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) (Producer)
Ilium Productions (Producer)
Jonathan Holmes (Director)
Nitin Sawhney (Music)
Lucy Orta (artist) (Other)
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