As most of the cast and crew on this production has worked with Practicum, we thought you’d like to know about it!

Lie Detector Truth Detector
By Peter Yates
Directed by Marie Bobin
@ The Edinburgh Fringe
ROMAN EAGLE LODGE Venue 21:
3-18 August 22.00 [1hr 15mins] £8.00 [£5.00]

Featuring Jennifer Taylor, James Flynn, Samuel Collings & Chris Bhantoa
CCTV, Identity Cards, Profiling, Passports and the Big Brother State –
discover the Government’s new Weapons of Mass Distortion.

Directed by Marie Bobin, Lie Detector received acclaim as part of Practicum Theatre’s Breaking News: The Rachel Corrie Ban at Theatre 503 Latchmere and again in the Theatre in the Pound season at the Cockpit Theatre.

Lie Detector, a stylishly quick-witted piece, managed to evoke shades both of Guantanamo Bay and modern corporate culture, and was as funny asit was cutting. -Decca Aitkenhead [The Guardian]

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Lie Detector Truth Detector has been developed from the short play Lie Detector first produced by Practicum Theatre at Theatre 503 in London and subsequently at The Cockpit and Tabard Theatres. The play is a political satire concerned with the continually increasing encroachment by Government on personal liberty in the name of the War on Terror.
The production highlights the erosion of civil liberties through the blinkered, one-dimensional approach to national security that is the hallmark of the present government.

The play consists of four separate but themed pieces:

• Lie Detector
• First Casualty
• Monitor Thirteen
• Truth Detector

Lie Detector
is set in an interrogation room deep in the bowels of the State Security Organisation. A suspect is questioned and his answers are tested by state-of-the-art hi-tech/hi-spec polygraph equipment. The results are surprising, the interrogator is confused.

First Casualty
Set in a war-zone, a former advertising agency has been commandeered by the government as its propaganda machine. There’s a body in the office, the top spin doctor is dead and the ex-admen have a pressing copy deadline. How do they sell the use of battlefield nuclear weapons as the acceptable face of modern anti-terrorist warfare?

Monitor Thirteen
A shopping mall, a CCTV monitor bank and hours of boredom to fill. Two Security Guards dream up their own private nightmare.

Truth Detector
Why did 10,000 people use forged passports last year? Maybe because they didn’t want to die in the process of attempting to get a legitimate one. Think Kafka, think Big Brother, think MI5 on speed: this is no ordinary Nanny State. This is the S&M, security-obsessed Nanny State.