The article "UK playwright plans shaw drawing on Anders Breivik's Norway killings" was published by Vanessa Thorpe on the website of The Guardian on March 24, 2013. This article reports about controversial play of one of Britain's acclaimed writers for the stage, David Greig, based on mass murders in Norway committed in 2011 by Anders Breivik. It was revealed that the play will be called "The Events" and it will be premiered this summer at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, before it travels to London for a run at the Young Vic.
Speaking of the play, it's necessary to note that according to Greig, this show is to examine the limits of human empathy. Researching the project the author of the play visited the country three months after the atrocity that took away the lives of 77 people and spoke to people who had been affected as well as to a journalist who revealed that he had been at school with Breivik and was able to give Greig detailed information.
It's also interesting to notice that Greig decided to creat such a controversial play because he was most interested in how Norwegian society was feeling. Greig has a critical view that Breivik's violence was done to an entire society. Norway seems to him to be a poster boy for the liberal west. In proportional terms Greig presumed that the Norwegian murders were akin to the 9/11 attacks on New York. But Americans responded one way, and Norway responded with democracy. So the playwriter wanted to look at whether trying to understand a crime of this nature is really the best way.
As for plot of this play, Greig's story centres on a woman, described as being "at the centre of the events", who has to try to decide on her response to the impact of a politically and racially motivated mass murder. The writer decided not to name Breivik in the show and to relocate the atrocity to his native Scotland.
The author of the article gives nor appraisals nor comments to British writer's play. As for me, I think that such a controversial production requires a very delicate approach. Mass murders of 2011 are severe tragedy for Norwegians. So what's the point in carrying back?
Speaking of the play, it's necessary to note that according to Greig, this show is to examine the limits of human empathy. Researching the project the author of the play visited the country three months after the atrocity that took away the lives of 77 people and spoke to people who had been affected as well as to a journalist who revealed that he had been at school with Breivik and was able to give Greig detailed information.
It's also interesting to notice that Greig decided to creat such a controversial play because he was most interested in how Norwegian society was feeling. Greig has a critical view that Breivik's violence was done to an entire society. Norway seems to him to be a poster boy for the liberal west. In proportional terms Greig presumed that the Norwegian murders were akin to the 9/11 attacks on New York. But Americans responded one way, and Norway responded with democracy. So the playwriter wanted to look at whether trying to understand a crime of this nature is really the best way.
As for plot of this play, Greig's story centres on a woman, described as being "at the centre of the events", who has to try to decide on her response to the impact of a politically and racially motivated mass murder. The writer decided not to name Breivik in the show and to relocate the atrocity to his native Scotland.
The author of the article gives nor appraisals nor comments to British writer's play. As for me, I think that such a controversial production requires a very delicate approach. Mass murders of 2011 are severe tragedy for Norwegians. So what's the point in carrying back?
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The author of the article gives NEITHER appraisal nor comments ON THE British writer's play.