If you happen to be in London this week I will be speaking with the highly accomplished journalist Nick Davies (famous for breaking the recent phone hacking scandal in the UK) on Monday night after the showing of On The Record. It will be my first time to see actor Trevor White portray me on stage (so this could be a great chance to see what I look like when I am completely weirded out!) Ha!
Seriously though, the play has been getting amazing reviews and the subject matter is very interesting. I will post some reviews and the press release below, for those of you that are interested.
The playwrights, Christine Bacon and Noah Birksted-Breen contacted me in early 2009 and told me about their interest in writing a play, based in part on my experiences in Iraq. We spent hours on the phone in interviews for them to get the direct quotes from which the play is primarily based. I never knew if anything would come of the project and was happy to find out that not only did they see it through but apparently they did an amazing job with the production. I look forward to seeing it on Monday the 8th and if any of you are able to join, please stick around afterwards and say hello.
From the Producers:
Press:
The Times ‘This play by Christine Bacon and Noah Birksted-Breen is a tribute to the courage, compassion and tenacity of those who unearth and report stories of real significance, often at great personal risk. Partly based on interviews with journalists, and partly dramatised, it makes gripping theatre, in a production by Michael Longhurst that is at once succinct, shocking and wryly funny … Throughout, the acting is riveting, unflashy and full of conviction, while the stories the play tells are truly humbling.’The American photo-journalist Zoriah Miller (Trevor White) maintains that in the United States censorship is rife, thanks to the power of the advertising dollar. “Nobody wants to sell a watch opposite a picture of someone dying,” he says. His images of the Iraq war are devastating; he captures them in the face of pressure from editors who want something lighter.Financial Times ‘At a time when so much of the British press appears to have been involved in crimes and corruption rather than uncovering them, this is a sobering and heartening reminder of why journalism also matters in a positive way.
Evening Standard ‘Impassioned … Director Michael Longhurst keeps up the tension throughout. A vital play for grubby times.’
The Sunday Times ‘As the phone-hacking scandal rumbles on, this reminder that journalism and integrity need not be mutually exclusive is something of a pick-me-up … The production … compresses a lot into 90 minutes as it lays out why the practice of investigative journalism matters’
Guardian ‘These people are fierce, proud and hearteningly optimistic.
Telegraph ‘Was I impressed?…Yes”
The Public Review (4.5 Stars) : “The most impressive thing of all is how this play teeters along the line between candour and good taste, showing us horrifying video images to shake us out of our comfortable, democratic cocoon without needing to push so hard that it feels like shock tactics. I often had goosebumps, and at times a lump in my throat, but mostly I felt in awe, and with a desire to find out more”
Spectator ‘On the Record is ‘an excellent, timely and unsettling play … So many plays are just circus routines or museum pieces. This is a living, breathing piece of propaganda in the best sense. It jerks us from our complacency and argues, quietly but with overwhelming force, that liberal democracy is not inherent in any community’s gene code. It has to be replanted and refreshed by each new generation.’
Metro “Warm and Witty”
The Stage : “Human rights theatre company Ice and Fire’s well-timed celebration of investigative journalism is a refreshing contrast to the daily reports of indiscriminate phone hacking recently in the news.”
The British Theatre Guide: “The acting in On The Record is impeccable throughout. Each performer gives a small masterclass in acting …The script by Christine Bacon and Noah Birksted-Breen is well paced and informative”
The Public Review : “The most impressive thing of all is how this play teeters along the line between candour and good taste, showing us horrifying video images to shake us out of our comfortable, democratic cocoon without needing to push so hard that it feels like shock tactics. I often had goosebumps, and at times a lump in my throat, but mostly I felt in awe, and with a desire to find out more”
ReviewsGate: “Theatre at its best showing journalism at its best…Michael Longhurst’s direction is exemplary… leaving the floor to six fine actors who embody their characters’ different manners and inhabit their sense of purpose without any sense of forcing personality or pleading a case...Christine Bacon, Noah Birkstead-Breen and Ice and Fire theatre’s production ensure a gripping, revelatory event”
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By Christine Bacon and Noah Birksted-Breen Directed by Michael Longhurst At Studio 1, Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London. 20th July – 13th August
On The Record is a searing new play from leading human rights theatre company iceandfire, giving an insight into the lives of campaigning journalists from around the world who put their lives on the line in the cause of truth. Part verbatim and part dramatised, it is personal testimony from real people with a vital role to play in safeguarding freedoms that we can all too often take for granted.
On The Record dramatises stories of six journalists: in Sri Lanka, the Wickrematunge brothers Lal and Lasantha start a newspaper to publish stories that the other papers won’t touch, knowing the enormous risks they run in challenging the powers that be; Lydia Cacho uncovers a Mexican child pornography ring involving politicians and businessmen, becoming a national hero in the process which only just saves her life; Elena Kostyuchenko investigates mafia collusion with the police in Moscow for the paper Novaya Gazeta; American photojournalist Zoriah Miller documents the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Iraq which he feels is the only way to convey the real human cost of the war, but comes into conflict with the US military censors; Amira Hass is the only Jewish Israeli journalist ever to have lived and worked in the Occupied Palestinian territories as a correspondent for the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, and is an outspoken critic of the occupation. On The Record weaves together the stories of these disparate characters linked by their determination to challenge the official version of the truth in their countries, with in some cases, horrifying consequences.
On The Record is written by Ice and Fire’s artistic director Christine Bacon and Noah Birksted- Breen. It is directed by acclaimed director Michael Longhurst whose recent work includes Stovepipe (Bush/National Theatre) and Remembrance Day (Royal Court).
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