Deep Cut

Tuesday, 10 March 2009 - Saturday, 4 April 2009

Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, NW6 7JR

How Much: £20.00 (Tickets)

Readers of Private Eye and close followers of the national press will be well aware of the Deep Cut Barracks story. Between 1995 and 2002 four cadets at this training barracks have killed themselves - every one of them in suspicious circumstances. So far all official inquiries have been whitewashes, with no sense of closure or justice for the families.

Philip Ralph's play, meticulously pieced together from the accounts of cadets, soldiers and families, is a dramatisation of Deep Cut, a place where sex, alcohol and bullying have created a unique and occasionally deadly environment. There are no answers, just a forensic dissection of a family's experience as they try and establish how and why their child died against a wall of silence.

A compelling, upsetting piece of theatre that was one of the hit shows of the Edinburgh Festival last summer.