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Sound of voices caught in the crossfire

There may have been a proliferation of Iraq War plays over recent years, but there are few likely to be more affecting than Canadian playwright Judith Thompson’s Palace Of The End (*****).

A trio of monologues developed with Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and directed here by Greg Hersov, they give voice to those caught in the crossfire and either vilified, drowned out or else not even heard in the first place.

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