by Alastair Brett with Siân EvansDirected by James Robert Carson

Where the IRA encountered the SAS and the Costa del Crimeand the TRUTH was caught between a rock and a hard place

Alastair Brett presents

Gibraltar

27 March – 20 April 2013Alastair Brett presents

by Alastair Brett with Siân EvansDirected by James Robert CarsonDesigned by Cordelia ChisholmLighting by Mike RobertsonAudio Visuals by Marco DevetakCasting by Sally Vaughan CDG

Cast: Greer Dale-Foulkes, Karina Fernandez, George Irving and Billy McColl

Gibraltar is based on the highly contentious shooting of threeunarmed Provisional IRA terrorists by the SAS in 1988. It analysesa television documentary which looked into the shootings and thevicious press backlash following the programme. Hear how theGovernment got it wrong, how the press got it wrong and howtelevision got it wrong. The play raises serious questions about theculture, practices and ethics of journalism. Its main character, Nick,is in pursuit of the TRUTH as a journalist adopting an ethical, asopposed to a sensational, form of journalism. Through him, we seehow and why the media coverage of the Gibraltar shootings washopelessly flawed.

Although based on fact, the dialogue is fictional apart from theaccounts of the shootings given on television, what was said in theHouse of Commons, in the Gibraltar Coroner’s Court and in policeand magistrates’ reports.

Gibraltar examines the people who live in this British OverseasTerritory, its proximity to Spain and Morocco and the smuggling,particularly drug smuggling, that has gone on there for years.

This is your opportunity to find out about the SAS, the IRA,journalists, MI5 informants and the Costa del Crime.Decide where you think the TRUTH lies!

Box Officewww.arcolatheatre.com020 7503 1646

Tickets and TimesMonday – Saturday at 8pm – £17 (£12 concessions)

Saturday matinees at 3pm (30 March, 06, 13 & 20 April) – £14 (£12 concessions)

Opening performances (27 – 30 March) – all tickets £12

Pay What You Can Tuesdays (tickets in person from 6.30pm – limited and subject to availability)

Arcola Theatre24 Ashwin Street

Dalston, London E8 3DL

Gibraltar