Jamie Sefton updates us on his play A Thousand Sons
We spoke to Jamie Sefton, author and performer of A Thousand Sons again in 2021, simply earlier than the present performed at Camden Fringe. It was an enchanting chat about this true story set over seven a long time, charting the results that being current on the atomic bomb testings within the Fifties has had on the boys concerned, and their households.
Since then we’ve reviewed the present on two events. Firstly at Camden Fringe 2021, and extra lately at EdFringe 2022. Both occasions we had been taken by its highly effective narrative, stating that “it is clear that A Thousand Sons is achieving its goals: both theatrically and politically.”
So when Jamie obtained in contact to say the present was again in London for per week at Camden People’s Theatre, we thought it might be a good time to meet up with him to speak not a lot in regards to the present itself, however what’s occurred since we spoke final 12 months. We chat about taking part in in entrance of simply six folks for one efficiency, why Edinburgh was so successful, and the way nerve wrecking it was to place this present about veterans in entrance of a room filled with them!
The present performs Camden People’s Theatre 1 – 5 November, tickets out there right here.
A Thousand Sons
Camden People’s Theatre, 1 – 5 November
A one individual present detailing the true horrors of nuclear weapons and the deceit by these in energy.
Weapons of mass destruction. An existential menace. Betrayal and injustice. We reside in hope that we’ll by no means need to expertise the results of nuclear weapons.
But a few of us have already got… and they’re nonetheless coping with the results.
A Thousand Sons tells the true story of British Nuclear Test veterans in a strong solo efficiency that blends motion and poetry with verbatim testimony from a forgotten group of nuclear veterans, used and betrayed by these in positions of energy. An eye-opening journey from the previous to the current, to shine a light-weight on the reality.