Under a railway arch in Waterloo a British journalist is interviewing Muammar Gaddafi about the uprising in Libya. It is of course not real but there is a sense of verisimilitude about the tete a tete with the now dead leader in London’s small Waterloo East theatre.

In Reggie Adams’s politically charged new play a washed-out foreign correspondent, played by Jonathan Hansler, grabs desperately at a chance to head into the war zone of Libya in 2011, where he might once again rediscover his lost passion and former glory.  

It opens with Hansler being thrown out of his London home by his Chilean wife (Christianne Oliveira) for failing to support her and their three daughters, and for no longer being the crusading journalist she fell in love with years before.