Feeding The Darkness

Cygnet Theatre
Authored by Cygnet Theatre
Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 4:25pm

Journeymen Theatre

Immersive in style, Feeding the Darkness frames verbatim and ‘faction’ monologues, duologues and poetry as a series of ‘ministries’ which challenge our ignorance and avoidance of this sensitive and disturbing subject. 

It features wide-ranging material such as the experiences of the mother of  Pte Lynndie England (court-marshalled for the abuse of Abu Ghraib detainees), a Kurdish asylum seeker at an appeal tribunal, and examines the role of trained medical professionals in state-sanctioned torture, amongst many others.

Feeding the Darkness both iterates the Quaker position on torture and encourages us to examine how the UN Convention Against Torture (1965) Article 1 is clearly being abused by UK and world-wide governments.

“The production galvanised the audience that I was part  of.... we can all choose to be part of the solution.”

This production has been commissioned by Q-CAT (Quaker Concern for the Abolition of Torture)

Not suitable for under 17

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Venue

Cygnet Theatre, Exeter

Event Date

Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 3:00pm

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