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T2063435945 (NT09)

Corporate Sponsor Accenture. Producer National Theatre. Director Richard Eyre. Design Rob Howell. Lighting Neil Austin. Design Jon Driscoll (projection). Music Richard Hartley. Sound Rich Walsh. Performer Anna Chancellor. Performer James Fleet. Performer Chuk Iwuji. Performer Leo Bill. Performer Baon Broni. Performer Peter Forbes. Performer Lloyd Hutchinson. Performer Aicha Kossoko. Performer Louis Mahoney. Performer Cyril Nri. Performer Isabel Pollen. Performer Joy Richardson.

13 May 09 to 3 Sep 09

Cottesloe (National Theatre), West End :: V375
listing details L0658909430

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Play :: An international group of observers arrives in a West African country to oversee and rubber stamp its first democratic election. New voters queue in their thousands, but a senior member of the observation team find herself both horrified by the president’s suppressive tactics and, for once, in a position to do something about it. Yet as violence on the streets escalates and the country enters free fall, an increasingly angry young translator forces this well-meaning outsider to confront the impact of her intervention.

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