‘Let’s do our thing’: Theatre as a Democratic Forum Opposing the Institutionalised Political Discourse on the War in Iraq
Résumé
Tony Blair’s decision to sanction a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, alongside the United
States, provoked strong reactions on the British stage. The opposition to the conflict, both
protean and virulent, led to the revival of the theatrical stage as a popular forum and to open up
the dramatic dialogue to philosophy, politics and ethics. This article will examine the political
and theatrical endeavours of three plays (Called to Account: The Indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton
Blair for the Crime of Aggression Against Iraq—A Hearing by Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicholas
Kent, Chilcot by Richard Norton-Taylor and Matt Woodhead and The Vertical Hour by David Hare),
as well as their reception, so as to evaluate the characteristics of the political debate on the war
in Iraq within the theatre and the value of the counter-discourses it opposes to those of the
political institutions.
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