Fallujah
Fallujah is riveting. Really, really exciting. Juliet Stevenson
Undeniably powerful. Nicholas Hytner
For those who want to know the truth about what actually happened in Iraq, this extraordinary, powerful play will fascinate you. Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Fallujah is a hard-hitting, verbatim play.
In the words of those involved and of witnesses in situ, it tells the real story of what happened in Fallujah: the full story that the media were prevented from telling.
Fallujah draws on research carried out by Dr Scilla Elworthy of Peace Direct, by the Oxford Research Group and Iraq Bodycount, and on interviews with Iraqi civilians and politicians, clerics, NGOs, aid workers and senior British and American soldiers and diplomats, and also on transcripts of interviews carried out by others over the past two years.
Apart from a few linking phrases and comments, every word in the script is verbatim, and all events described have been verified by at least two independent sources.
The play is the result of a collaboration with Jonathan Holmes, the musician Nitin Sawhney, and the artist Lucy Orta.
The play talks of events of incredible urgency and importance, and will be staged alongside a series of public debates on the occupation, as well as documentaries on the attack on Fallujah, a photographic exhibition and concerts by Iraqi musicians.