A British Subject
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Opened Dec 9, 2009
Closed Jan 3, 2010
Opened Dec 9, 2009
Closed Jan 3, 2010
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A British Subject comes to NY from the Pleasance in Edinburgh, where it premiered during the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
At the age of 18, Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British subject, arrived in Pakistan. 24 hours later a taxi driver was dead and Tahir was tried for his murder. Condemned to hang in the Criminal Court, he spent 18 years on Death Row. Don Mackay of the Daily Mirror was the only journalist to visit him in that time.
Written by and starring Olivier Award-winning actress (and Mackay's wife) Nichola McAuliffe, A British Subject is their tense and absorbing true tale that travels from the backstage of a Noel Coward play in the heart of London to the squalid jails of Pakistan as Mackay and McAuliffe race to free this British national from his date with
the gallows.
A British Subject is an extraordinary true-life tale of international politics and the media colliding with justice, civil liberties and, ultimately, faith.
A British Subject makes its US premiere at Brits Off Broadway, after a critically acclaimed, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where the Observer called it "edge of the seat drama!"
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In 1988, a young British student named Mirza Tahir Hussain traveled to Pakistan to visit some relatives and wound up on that country's death row instead. Detained over a disputed incident in which a cab driver was killed, Hussain found himself on a years-long roller coaster of convictions, reprieves, and setbacks. His saga, and that of an English tabloid reporter who championed his innocence, is the focus of A British Subject, a well-meaning but scattershot drama from Pleasance Theatre, which is now playing 59E59 Theaters under the direction of Hannah Eidinow.
Current headlines, most notably the Amanda Knox case, would seem to add extra heat to such a story for U.S. audiences, but the play[...]