Anthony Barnett (London, OK): This time she was only acting but she plays the role of Elizabeth Wilmshurst, the Foreign Office legal adviser who resigned because the invasion of Iraq was not legal. It is in the first, I thought brilliant and clarifying, of eight Newsnight short films 10 Days to War. You can see it here. The discussion that followed was rubbish with Paxman at his disinterested worst. But you can't have everything and the films will last.
I have also posted about Motherland, which Stevenson directed, in Comment is Free, picking up from the post about it here in OK and adding the new context of gender-based persecution of Iranian asylum seekers. As I said, you'll be lucky to see Motherland which is being put on again this Saturday at the Young Vic. Here is a picture of her in the first performance
