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Benecke, Patricia
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
A play about Tony Blair and the war in Iraq
London's Tricycle theatre specialises in documentary theatre. A play which explores British Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to support the war in Iraq recently made its debut there. Patricia Benecke reviews the play titled "Called to Account": "Although this production works with minimal theatrical means, the pointed dialogues exert a strong dramatic pull which is difficult to escape. Director Nicolas Kent manages to revive memories of facts that only attentive readers of long reports would be aware of, and of information that was briefly in the media but was soon superseded by new developments. However, in its concluding speech the defence proves itself right in that no laws were demonstrably broken... Once the evidence has been presented Kent releases his audience without pronouncing judgement - he leaves it to each individual to reach his or her decision."
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Debbie Tucker Green's short, political and poetic dramas
Patricia Benecke portrays Afro-Caribbean playwright Debbie Tucker Green, whose short plays have caused a sensation in London and are soon to go on show in Berlin and Munich. One of her works only lasts 20 minutes. Benecke writes about Tucker Green's most recent play, which was performed at the Royal Court in 2005. "It deals with distinctly African problems. An HIV-infected couple fight each other to death over the single prescription for AIDS medication that is available to the family; a child soldier slaughters his way through the story with his machete, and Mary is condemned to death by stoning. Under the direction of Marianne Elliott these three plots are only partially tied up with each other and the actors sometimes have a hard time with Green's fragmentary, disjointed volleys of text. Nonetheless, it certainly poses in a very vivid manner the question of what Europe would do if confronted with the problems that Africa faces."
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