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VICTORIA BRITTAIN
Nationality: British
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Literary Agent: United Agents
Victoria Brittain, currently a Research associate at the London School of economics, has lives and worked as a journalist in Washington, Saigon, algiers, Nairobi, and London. She worked at 'the Guardian' for 20 years, most recently as associate Foreign editor.
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Guantanamo Meaning Of Waiting, The WaitingGuantanamo
I don't know what crime I am supposed to have committed for which not only I but my wife and children should continually suffer.' British detainee Moazzam Begg. Weaving together personal stories, legal opinion and political debate, 'Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' looks at the questions surrounding the detentions in Guantanamo Bay, and asks how much damage is being done to Western democratic values during the 'war of terror'.
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written by Victoria Brittain And Gillian Slovo
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Tricycle Theatre, London >>>
25/2004
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Documentary Drama Documentary
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eight women tell their stories - using their own words - stories of the unseen fallout of the war on terror in Britain. these are stories of real women, from cultures as varied as Palestine, Senegal , Jordan, Libya, St John's Wood, and the english Midlands. they all came to the UK as refugees, or married refugees here. after 9/11 the world they loved here vanished almost overnight. One after another they were engulfed by isolation and private terror.
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the production text of Waiting was A modified version of the original the Meaning of Waiting
1st Produced:
Purcell Room, London (As Waiting)
12 Mar 2010
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Southbank Centre in association with Metta Theatre Company
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Documentary
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Top of PageWaiting
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Five women either refugees or married to a refugee tell their stories of life in the north of England after 9/11
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Music by Jessica Dannheisser; lyrics by Poppy Burton-Morgan
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Purcell Room, South Bank, London
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Drama
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