The Riots opened: a verbatim play or investigative documentary by GS
commissioned by Nicholas Kent
of the Tricycle Theatre
to address the race riots in Britain in August that year, in the absence of a...
Performance of text
Gillian Slovo
The Temporary Theatre at the National Theatre
saw the debut of Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, a verbatim play by GS
, directed by her former co-worker in this genre, Nicholas Kent
.
Latif, Nadia, and Omar El-Kairy. “Censorship, blindspots and bomb squads”. The Guardian, pp. G16 - 17.
Billington, Michael. “Another World review—compelling insights into Islamic State”. theguardian.com.
Textual Features
Kamila Shamsie
The novel is dedicated to Gillian Slovo
, whom KS
chose to read an early draft of it because of her work on Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State for the National Theatre
