#FinboroughForFree: I Wish To Die Singing
by Neil McPherson
by Neil McPherson
I Wish To Die Singing is a documentary drama commemorating the Armenian genocide, featuring eyewitness testimonies and artistic expressions that reveal the historical atrocities faced by the Armenian people.
About The Play
About The Play
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I Wish To Die Singing won the Best Play Award in UK Studio Theatre Awards 2016.
An excerpt from the play was also performed in Los Angeles in April 2015 starring Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Commemorating the centenary of the Armenian genocide, the world premiere of a documentary drama.
“On the night of Saturday, April 24th 1915, the Armenians of Constantinople were snoring in a calm sleep – exhausted from their Easter celebrations – while in the Central Police Station a secret project was in motion…”
The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the 20th century, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish Government against the Armenians, a Christian minority in a Muslim state. One and a half million people died.
The word ‘genocide’ itself was invented by Raphael Lemkin in 1943 to describe the events of 1915. Adolf Hitler used the Armenian Genocide as a direct inspiration for the Holocaust during the Second World War.
To this day, the Turkish government refuses to admit that any genocide ever took place.
Commemorating the exact centenary of the deportations that began the Armenian Genocide, I Wish To Die Singing – Voices From The Armenian Genocide is a controversial documentary drama uncovering the forgotten secrets and atrocities of a denied genocide – featuring eye-witness reportage, images, music, poetry from Armenia’s greatest poets, and verbatim survivors testimonies from one of the greatest historical injustices of all time