The Tricycle: Collected Tribunal Plays 1994-2012 (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

by Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, Victoria Brittain, and Gillian Slovo

Michael Billington (Introduction)

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From 1994-2012 Kilburn’s Tricycle Theatre produced an extraordinary body of work that sought to engage, inform,and critique British and International Politics using verbatim testimony to respond to contemporary issues. Collected here for the first time are the complete ‘Tribunal Plays’. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Tricycle’ sfirst Tribunal Play – Half the Picture. This collection celebrates a remarkable and enduring body of work.

Contains the plays Half the Picture, Nuremberg, Srebrenica, The Colour of Justice, Justifying War, Guantanamo, Bloody Sunday, Called to Account, Tactical Questioning and The Riots. Also included is a brand-new round table discussion with Nicolas Kent, Richard Norton-Taylor, Gillian Slovo and the playwright David Edgar, charting the history and development of each show and the contribution the Tribunal Plays have made to political theatre in the last two decades, and a foreword by Guardian journalist and chief theatre critic Michael Billington.
  • ISBN10 178319068X
  • ISBN13 9781783190683
  • Publish Date 30 September 2014
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 3 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 968
  • Language English