The Tricycle theatre is to return to verbatim political drama with a new production examining the British Army’s handling of detainees in Iraq.
Tactical Questioning: Scenes From The Baha Mousa Inquiry, which runs from 2 June to 2 July (press night 6 June), is edited from the transcripts of the 2008 public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, an Iraqi hotel receptionist who was suspected of being an insurgent and arrested by the British Army in September 2003. Two days later he was dead.
The production is directed by Tricycle theatre Artistic Director Nicolas Kent and edited by Guardian Security Affairs Editor Richard Norton-Taylor, the team behind most of the Tricycle’s previous eight ‘tribunal plays’ including Bloody Sunday, Justifying War and The Colour Of Justice, as well as 2007’s Called To Account, Norton-Taylor’s fictional play which imagined former Prime Minister Tony Blair put on trial for crimes of aggression against Iraq. All of those productions were subsequently broadcast by the BBC and led to Kent receiving the Liberty Human Rights Arts award last year.
Tactical Questioning: Scenes From The Baha Mousa Inquiry runs at the Tricycle theatre following current production Brontë and a brief stay by comedian and political activist Mark Thomas.
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