Dead Cats
In rooms like this room people lie. Not little lies, the kinds of lies that kill people, or worse…

In this room, or in rooms like this room, they use phrases like collateral damage, like extraordinary rendition, like perception management. They cover up their dirty words with clean ones, in rooms like this room. In rooms like this room, they redact the names.

In rooms like this room, language is laundered.

The name of the game is spin.

Dead Cats is the third contemporary theatre work in Proto-type's critically acclaimed Truth to Power Project, following on from A Machine They're Secretly Building and The Audit – a socially-engaged exploration of power, democracy, truth-telling, protest, privacy, conspiracy, and control. It blends new writing, performance, film-making, and an obvious plant, to show – not tell – the truths behind the fictions.

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Dead Cats
In rooms like this room people lie. Not little lies, the kinds of lies that kill people, or worse…

In this room, or in rooms like this room, they use phrases like collateral damage, like extraordinary rendition, like perception management. They cover up their dirty words with clean ones, in rooms like this room. In rooms like this room, they redact the names.

In rooms like this room, language is laundered.

The name of the game is spin.

Dead Cats is the third contemporary theatre work in Proto-type's critically acclaimed Truth to Power Project, following on from A Machine They're Secretly Building and The Audit – a socially-engaged exploration of power, democracy, truth-telling, protest, privacy, conspiracy, and control. It blends new writing, performance, film-making, and an obvious plant, to show – not tell – the truths behind the fictions.

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Dead Cats

Dead Cats

by Andrew Westerside
Dead Cats

Dead Cats

by Andrew Westerside

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Overview

In rooms like this room people lie. Not little lies, the kinds of lies that kill people, or worse…

In this room, or in rooms like this room, they use phrases like collateral damage, like extraordinary rendition, like perception management. They cover up their dirty words with clean ones, in rooms like this room. In rooms like this room, they redact the names.

In rooms like this room, language is laundered.

The name of the game is spin.

Dead Cats is the third contemporary theatre work in Proto-type's critically acclaimed Truth to Power Project, following on from A Machine They're Secretly Building and The Audit – a socially-engaged exploration of power, democracy, truth-telling, protest, privacy, conspiracy, and control. It blends new writing, performance, film-making, and an obvious plant, to show – not tell – the truths behind the fictions.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350355903
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/17/2022
Series: Modern Plays
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.14(d)

About the Author

Andrew Westerside is co-artistic director of Proto-type Theater, a company of multi-disciplinary artists who have been making and touring original performance work in the UK, the Netherlands, Russia, China, Armenia, France, Zimbabwe and the US since 1997. Critics have called their work 'an intriguing brush with altered reality' (The New York Times) and 'enthralling' (Zambezi News).
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