DESCRIBE THE NIGHT A Post-Truth play by Pulitzer finalist RAJIV JOSEPH

DESCRIBE THE NIGHT
A Post-Truth play by Pulitzer finalist RAJIV JOSEPH
DIRECTED BY LISA SPIRLING

"When we say that something is true, it becomes true. When we say that something is false, it becomes false… There is nothing that cannot eventually be crossed out and changed"

In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel reports on a Red Cavalry campaign in Poland. In 1936, Stalin’s NKVD chief Nicolai Yezhov unleashes the Great Purge. In 1989, a mysterious KGB agent spying on a woman in Dresden falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes near the Russian city of Smolensk…

This darkly comic fantasia on Russian themes explores the blurred lines between lies, fiction and conspiracy theories, as it tracks back and forth across 90 years of Soviet and post-Soviet history in search of the genesis of the post-truth world.

The cast of the UK premiere of Rajiv Joseph's Describe the Night will be composed of David Birrell (The Shadow Factory), Ben Caplan (Sunny Afternoon), Siena Kelly (A Christmas Carol), Wendy Kweh (Julius Caesar), Joel MacCormack (The Oresteia), Rebecca O'Mara (Private Lives) and Steve John Shepherd (Much Ado About Nothing).

Rajiv Joseph is the multi-award winning author of a dozen plays including Guards at the Taj and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

‘A timely vision of how fragile the public understanding of truth can be’ Evening Standard

‘A kaleidoscopic vision of Soviet history’ The Guardian

‘A tangled web of sex, lies and KGB videotape’ The Times

'A dazzlingly audacious epic’ WhatsOnStage

‘Intellectual exhilaration’ The Telegraph

‘The conspiracy theorist in me relished it’ Daily Mail

‘The play zigzags magnificently through history’ The Stage

2 great stall seats in row B at one of our fav theatres in the main house. I will meet you on the day with the tickets. Contact details will be sent out nearer the time.
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