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Recent Media releases
- 1/12/09
Amnesty International UK and iceandfire are joining forces to discover the best new plays exploring human rights issues from around the world through their script initiative, Everyone has the Right. The project will launch on the 10th December 2009 at the London School of Economics (LSE) as part of an event with the Centre for Human Rights.
- 12/11/09
Acclaimed theatre company iceandfire are touring their new play for young people, Bind by Sara Masters. Coming hot on the heels of the MMR debate and the controversial Swine Flu vaccinations, this brand new play asks ‘What duties do we have to our community?’
- 27/10/09
EveryChild and Save the Children UK have collaborated with iceandfire to stage a new play based on the real testimonies of vulnerable children from around the world.
- 01/09/09
iceandfire have joined with Amnesty International UK to raise awareness about people who have suffered human rights abuses, both within the UK and abroad, in a series of free performances every Thursday night in September.
- 09/07/09
Binyam Mohamed, a former UK resident, was arrested at Karachi Airport in April 2002. For him, this was the beginning of a two-year ordeal known as ‘extraordinary rendition’, the CIA’s practice of transporting people to prisons for interrogation in countries with a known risk of torture.Rendition Monologues, at the Edinburgh Fringe from 17 – 23 August, weaves together the first-hand accounts of four men, including Binyam, who have been victims of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program.
- 06/06/09
Click here to see co-Artistic Director Christine Bacon on George Galloway’s The Real Deal, Press TV! Talking about Rendition Monologues.
- 04/06/09
Seven City Tour of Asylum Dialogues [PDF 500kb]Before an unlikely friendship developed between John, a 66 year-old Birmingham accountant, and Angela, a 40 year-old Jamaican woman who cleaned his office, John admitted to believing the spin about asylum seekers perpetuated by the tabloid press and the government: ”I honestly used to say – send them all back home. They shouldn’t be here. Taking all our money.”
- 18/05/09
iceandfire have joined with Reprieve to spread the word about those who have suffered torture and abuse under the CIA’s counter-terror method known as ‘extraordinary rendition’. The two organizations have jointly released a viral video campaign to encourage people to find out more about the practice and to call for full inquiries from both the UK and US Governments. You can see the video online now, at www.renditionmonologues.org.
For more information please contact Charlotte George, Media and Communications Officer, on 07954 199 307, media@iceandfire.co.uk