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AS much an illustrated lecture as a stage production, China Plate Theatre’s latest production is a timely reminder of the perilous state of an unstable world with over thirteen-and-a-half thousand nuclear weapons and the Nobel prize-winning work of ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.)

Writer and actor Chris Thorpe greets and chats to the audience before taking them on a personal trip about just what their city, Bristol, means to them and how any nuclear weapon would impact on their world. Utilising projections from NUKEMAP and recordings of the 2020 Lebanon dockside explosion, he creates a vivid impression of the potential local devastation.

His informal patter and detailed research on the state and deployment of nuclear weapons is interwoven with scenes representing the informal politicking of members of the UN including Veronique Christory played by Andrea Quirbach as the senior arms control adviser of the Red Cross delegation at the UN.