The play evokes, in four short scenes, a shocking awareness of the terror, brutality and inhumanity which can occur when the rights of the individual have been usurped by an all-powerful and oppressive state. 'Focusing on the brutalities of a society which forbids a minority of its population to speak in their own language, it is a play of a few words which add up to an eloquent indictment of the banning of any human utterance.' (The Independent) It was presented by the National Theatre at the Lyttelton Theatre in 1988 starring Eileen Atkins, Michael Gambon and Miranda Richardson
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