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Author Topic: 'Fallujah'  (Read 418 times)
George Garnett
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« on: 15:26:36, 19-04-2007 »

'Fallujah' at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, 1 May to 2 June. Full details here: http://www.fallujah.co.uk/
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« Reply #1 on: 09:44:56, 20-04-2007 »

George, what do you reckon to the recorded scene on the site? Commendable stab at recent events, but I was struck
by how young the actors sounded (playing young soldiers, Vietnam passim) and how youthfully polemical  the writing sounded. The Nitin Sawnhey contribution should be interesting.
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« Reply #2 on: 11:18:54, 20-04-2007 »

Fair point about the young actors. They weren't actually the ones that will be taking part in the main production in London but were presenting a short extract at a recent festival in Berlin.

I think it is fair to say that the production does have polemical intent in a general sense but, although the material has of course been selected and edited, there is strictly speaking no 'writing' involved. It all comes from verbatim transcripts from those actually involved on all sides.
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« Reply #3 on: 13:04:21, 20-04-2007 »

In all fairness I believe that the average age of American servicement in Iraq presently is between 19 and 21 (I dimly remember reading that somewhere?).  I found the voices disturbingly, but authentically youthful.   I would certainly had gone to this show had I been around during the dates.
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« Reply #4 on: 15:49:41, 20-04-2007 »

Thanks for the info George. I was in the British Army while the Falklands was on (didnt go there) , met some
U.S infantry guys on training. They too spoke in a stylised prozac kind of a way, lullled by a well-appointed
lifestyle before going into-generically- mismanaged teststerone-led combat we antiscipated. They seemed to think they were at some kind of  ballistic Butlins.
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« Reply #5 on: 11:41:28, 07-05-2007 »

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article1749480.ece

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KL4CCDEXM4NO3QFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/arts/2007/05/07/btfall107.xml

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