Stockwell transfers to the Tricycle Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
STOCKWELL: The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes, which premiered at the Landor Theatre in July, will transfer to the Tricycle Theatre for a limited run – from Wednesday, September 9 to Sunday, September 20, 2009.
Tickets: £12, £10 concessions.
Times: Monday to Sunday at 8pm (except September 13, 18 and 19), Saturday matinee at 4pm.
Previously Posted: Roland Egan Productions is presenting the world premiere of Stockwell: The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes at Landor Theatre – from July 21 to August 8, 2009.
Opening exactly four years after the events of July 22, 2005, that culminated in the tragic death of the innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, Stockwell weaves together the diverse voices from the inquest’s many witnesses, charting the desperate acceleration towards one of the most controversial moments in the history of the Metropolitan Police.
As well as exploring the sequence of events that led to the fatal shooting, the play also paints a vivid portrait of a city still in shock from the “7/7” attacks and a jittery and overstretched police force following the failed July 21 tube bombings at Shepherd’s Bush, Warren Street and Oval the previous day.
Surveillance and firearms officers, senior police coordinators, civilian witnesses to the shooting and relatives of de Menezes all contribute their accounts in a dramatic reworking of the inquest that delivered its verdict last December.
Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27 year-old Brazilian national working in the UK as an electrician, was shot nine times at close range on a train at Stockwell tube station by the Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Firearms Command Unit. The Independent Police Complaints Commission launched two investigations into the shooting, concluding that no officer would face disciplinary charges. From September 22 to December 12, 2008, an inquest met to investigate the events of July 22. One hundred witnesses and over £3 million later, it returned an open verdict.
Stockwell is created by Kieron Barry and Sophie Lifschutz, the writing/director partnership behind 2007’s Deepcut: Scenes From An Inquiry.