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#FinboroughForFree: S-27

by Sarah Grochala

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The world premiere of the winner of Amnesty International’s first Protect The Human Playwriting Competition
1 Dec - 31 Jan 2021
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A video of the play S-27 is available for viewing, along with a subtitled version, while the Finborough Theatre seeks support due to significant financial challenges following its closure.

About The Event

About The Play

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A subtitled version of this video is available to watch from our partners at Scenesaver. Click here.

★★★★ Four Stars, The Jewish Chronicle
★★★★ Four Stars, Mobile Theatre

To read all about the original Finborough Theatre production of S-27, please click here.

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May is an idealist. She’s fighting for a better world and has sacrificed more than most. So when the old regime is destroyed, she is rewarded with a job as a prison photographer. But as the enemy pass one by one before her unflinching lens – both strange and familiar faces – can they shake her belief in this world she helped create?

Inspired by the work of the photographer Nhem En, who photographed the inmates of Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, and by painter Van Nath who painted Pol Pot and was one of only seven survivors of Tuol Sleng, playwright Sarah Grochala draws on prison records and interviews with both prisoners and Khmer Rouge cadres to create a startling and affecting drama.

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Cast

Crew

Director

Stephen Keyworth

Producer

Sarah Hudson. Presented by Lifeboat in association with widsith.

Design

Olivia Altaras

Lighting Design

Gary Bowman

Sound Design

David Gregory

Production Electrician

Chris Gunnell

Assistant Direction

Eleanor Rhode