Britain - Osama The Play

Michael Billington reviews Dennis Kelly's play in The Guardian.

I found this bit interesting.

What, you wonder, is the connection between these isolated oddballs? The answer becomes chillingly clear when, after Mark's garage is bombed, Gary is taken prisoner by Francis and tortured by the freaky estate-dwellers. This yields a scene of violent intensity which allows Kelly to hit a number of nails squarely on the head: that, in the current climate, dissent is suspect, nonconformity dangerous and any attempt to look at recent events from a non-western angle automatic proof of guilt. When doubts are raised as to whether Gary really did bomb the garage, Louise unnervingly replies: "You don't need evidence for terrorists."

The "freaky estate-dwellers" and "you don't need evidence" are clearly a reference to neo-cons and Guantanamo.

The comment about "in the current climate" works just as well if you insert Islam. Watch.

In Islam, dissent is suspect, nonconformity dangerous and any attempt to look at recent events from a non-Islamic angle automatic proof of guilt.

See. And you don't need evidence either.

Heh, works for me.
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