Theatre can be an extension of journalism, a wonderful platform to explain, warn, make a case, with the added stimulus of live performances and live audiences.
These two short, powerful, and important, plays are built around fictional episodes but to drive the point home that they are embedded in fact. Both are introduced by verbatim extracts from an interview with Clive Stafford Smith, founder of the human rights group, Reprieve.
The overall title of the double bill is taken from a quote from former US defence secretary, Robert Gates. We have entered the ‘drone age’ says Stafford Smith, who makes the point that the British government, as well as the US government, has drawn up a ‘kill list’ of targets for drone strikes. In Washington, they have been decided at weekly Tuesday meetings in the White House.
