Fallujah by Jonathan Holmes
The verbatim play "Fallujah", starring Samanthan Morton and with a score by Nitin Sawney, is set to be this year's Guantanamo. This sourcebook documents the testimony that forms the basis of the play, from Iraqi civilians, NGOs, politicians, US and UK military, and journalists involved in the three attacks on Fallujah. It makes a strong case - based on unpublished evidence gathered by Dr Scilla Elworthy of Peace Direct (and a Nobel Peace-Prize nominee) - that the US military should be hauled up before the ICC for war crimes. This book will provide the key to the way the verbatim material was put together, to reveal the facts behind the play's fictional form. Also published here is an essay by the playwright and director Jonathan Holmes, and Scilla Elworthy, putting forward the case behind the research and making public the atrocities carried out by the Americans.
Jonathan Holmes is a writer, director and academic. He has directed and produced more than twenty theatre productions. In 1999 his play Wolfsong was named best of the Edinburgh Festival; he wrote the libretto for the opera Killing Time, about the blues musician Robert Johnson, which is in development at the National Theatre. He runs the organisation Agent For Change and is Creative Advisor to Peace Direct. Fallujah will premier in the west end in September 2006.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845293734 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845293738 |
| Title | Fallujah |
| Author | Jonathan Holmes |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2007-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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