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Theatre N16, London
IN RECOGNITION of the Armistice and all that it means, Theatre N16 are devoting the whole of November to Aftershock, a “military season” of three new plays that explore the meaning and nature of war.
The first, Martin McNamara’s powerfully realistic drama IED, is set in 2008 at the height of the Afghanistan conflict, where Captain Agnes Bennett, an army notification officer, has the routine administrative job of reporting deaths in the field to the nearest and dearest of the fallen.
It’s a formidable task.
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