James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning
The play imagines the pressures and contradictions that shaped Bradley Manning before the leaks that made him famous. Tim Price places that story against Welsh radical traditions, turning it into a political drama about conscience, power, and responsibility.
Work Information
A political play that asks how conviction becomes radicalisation.
Tim Price turns a contemporary case into theatre by linking Bradley Manning's story to broader histories of dissent and political radicalism in Wales. The result is a drama that treats a headline-making event as a question about moral pressure and public responsibility.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Published
- 2012-04-11
- Pages
- 112 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.07 x 0.66 x 19.25 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781408172872
- ISBN-10
- 1408172879
- Price
- 2815 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Drama/British & Irish
Bradley Manning is the 24-year-old Us soldier accused of the release of thousands of Us embassy emails to Wikileaks. On Friday 16th December 2011, his pre-trial hearing opened in Fort Meade in Maryland. Manning faces a maximum sentence of life in custody with no chance of parole. But just a few years ago, he was a teenager in west Wales. How does his story impact on the people he left behind, and who is responsible for his 'radicalisation'? The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning aims to place him in the pantheon of great Welsh radicals, from the Chartists to Aneurin Beva. This young soldier, who names the president of the United States as a defence witness, knows bus timetables around Haverfordwest. This young man who played a part in the Arab spring, knows the trials of schoolboy rugby. This young soldier who apparently chose his moral code over his military one, speaks rudimentary Welsh. Tim Price's trademark humanity, warmth and wit depicts a complex portrait of Manning as a modern-day, troubled and flawed martyr, but a martyr nonetheless.
Tim Price is a writer on the cusp of major recognition, with For Once being the first of three major premieres of his work planned over the next year. His next play, Salt, Root and Roe will be seen at Trafalgar Studios in November as part of the Donmar West End season, and in 2012, his play The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning will open for the National Theatre of Wales in Haverfordwest. He was shortlisted for this year's Verity Bargate Award with his play Will and George.
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